Australia’s only topical news satire (excluding The Weekly, Sammy J’s spot, that thing Mark Humphries does on 7:30, those Juice Media sketches you can find online, Dan Ilic’s Rational Fear podcast, those excellent clips Huw Parkinson does on Insiders and that new quiz show the ABC are planning) is back to pour scorn and ridicule on our government and occasionally lob a softball joke at Labor to try and keep the IPA happy. I mean really, how much material can you be expected to come up with every week about how ineffectual and pointless the Opposition are? What a bunch of useless layabouts.
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Mike Seccombe.
Christian Porter as a Hale School student.
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Francis Greenslade was never really part of the privileged class that runs our country. But he came close enough to get a good look at it, warts and all. Greenslade – an actor, teacher, writer, translator, musician – is probably best known through his work on the ABC’s satirical television show
Mad as Hell. But in his youth, he had another claim to fame, as a champion debater.
On Friday Morrison characterised calls for an independent inquiry as âthe rule of the mobâ and accused those calling to test the allegations against Porter of âundermining the principles of the rule of lawâ.
Asked about the need for an inquiry, Morrison replied: âNo, I donât accept this proposition that any Australian should be subject to a rule of law that is different to anyone else.
âThere is the presumption of innocence. I believe in the presumption of innocence.
â[The investigation], as the police have said, has concluded.
âAnd given that process has concluded, the presumption of innocence stands. And so we should be able to move on from that. There is no alternative process.â
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Scott Morrison is comedy gold, like George Costanza: Tosh Greenslade
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Scott Morrison is comedy gold, like George Costanza: Tosh Greenslade
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison is comedy gold, according to actor-turned-writer Tosh Greenslade. “If you had [
Seinfeld s] George Costanza do any of the things that Morrison has done, it would make the top 10 moments of George Costanza. Grabbing a bushfire victim’s hand so you can get a photo, then doing it again with a fireman and saying ‘It’s good that nobody died’ and being told, ‘Well, a couple of people died’ and then saying, ‘Oh, no, I meant that no firemen died’, that’s comedy 101.”