Why is it that the term “drugs” brings forth the most disgusting hypocrisy? But then we all know Mr Howard has a great gift for hypocrisy.

As for Bronnie, she’s just a known nasty piece of work. I suppose someone has to appeal to the deadshit vote.

The government’s policy is zero tolerance.

Sigh, what a total crock of steaming bullshit. Loved JWH, too: “I am unashamedly zero tolerance”.

Uhhhh no.

Embarrassing as it is for you Johnnie and Bronnie, Australia’s drug policy ever was, is and ever will be Harm Minimisation.

You can call it “Tough on Drugs”, or “Mushrooms on Pizza” or whatever you like, really, the fact is that rehab, injecting rooms and methadone are Harm Minimisation.

Sure, Alan Jones may hate it, but fortunately he’s just a dickhead and – in a dance as familiar as the Madison to him – the empirical evidence doesn’t agree with his (or Howard’s) frothings on this issue.

Worse for Howard, his own policies don’t agree with him, either. Australia has a reasonably good harm minimisation infrastructure because

a) unlike zero tolerance, it works, and has been proven to work all over the world.

b) it’s a fuckload cheaper than zero tolerance, in lack-of-bang for your buck, if that makes sense.

I just wish someone in the media had the cojones to call him on this Zero Tolerance bullcrap. Sigh. Makes me mad.

Why can’t she just find a grants scheme to rort and retire?

Bronnie’s unashamed ignorance and dogmatic absolutism has more akin to parties of the far-left and the far-right than the centre-right party to which she is unfortunately a member. Can’t we make her the Ambassador to Bahrain or anything to get her out of the parliament!

I think ‘dogmatic ignorance’ is more apposite in this context and, let’s face it, in a “career” running over a couple of decades Bronnie hasn’t been averse to taking a taxpayer dollar or two herself.

But the poor old dear’s been a bit on the outer since her administrative skills as minister responsible for aged care were shown to be less Margaret Thatcher and more Jim Hacker. Still it’s good to hear her occasional squawks in the house about pointless points of order in her belated and equally pointless job application for the Speaker’s chair.

I’d object to her getting a well-paid sinecure anywhere, though, Antonio. Straight to the scaffold with her I say.

One of the reasons that I am a Liberal is that I believe that liberal philosophy is the most pragmatic philosophy to be both borne out and in congruence with historical and scientific evidence. Bronnie’s unashamed ignorance and dogmatic absolutism has more akin to parties of the far-left and the far-right than the centre-right party to which she is unfortunately a member. Can’t we make her the Ambassador to Bahrain or anything to get her out of the parliament!