When Michael Keenan first met his challenger for the seat of Stirling, Peter Tinley, he apparently was unable to stop himself from blurting out: “You’re much taller than I expected!” Yesterday, Peter Tinley met a man who is even taller still.
Peter Garrett came to Stirling yesterday, and after bringing the media to Trigg beach, announced that Federal Labor is against cane toads.
CANE toads, or “marching aliens” as Opposition environment spokesman Peter Garrett refers to them, will be a top priority for a Rudd government.
From Garrett’s press release:
According to the World Conservation Union, the cane toad is one of the world’s 100 worst pest species.
Cane toads devour virtually anything smaller than them. Native animals such as snakes, goannas and quolls are killed by the poison contained in glands behind the toad’s head, when they try to eat cane toads. Northern quolls and yellow-spotted monitors have been heavily impacted and are now considered to be endangered and vulnerable, respectively, to extinction.
He limited his comments to the largely uncontroversial “cane toads bad” meme, turning down the opportunity to comment on the recently-approved Gorgon and Pluto gas projects.
Later that day, shoppers in Mirrabooka Square were treated to a walk-through by the former rock star, where I got to shake his hand!!! He might be an unprincipled sell-out who has, for now, decided to focus on achieving the possible, but he’s still rock-star cool. The man wears a suit like no-one else in Parliament, and… what was I talking about… oh yeah… A Rudd Labor Government will be tough on cane toads.
For too long we have been turning a blind eye to the slimy hordes. They just don’t integrate. I say we must stand up and say ENOUGH! Let’s put an end to the Wart Australia Policy!
Star Swamp and Dog Swamp will be pleased to know that Baldy is putting it on the line to keep Cane Toads out.
Major Tinley will be conducting OPs and Ambush Patrols in the Stirling Wetlands – and success will be his – Look! No Cane Toads!
Also as a hallucinant, cane toads breach our tough stance on drugs.
Call me louche but I think men look better, more individual y’know, outside a suit, which after all is designed to make all men look pretty much the same and cover up essentials.
Geez, yet another Garrett sell-out. This man will do ANYTHING to gain power. He used to smoke the friggin’ things in his wild younger days. Now they’re verboten, it seems.
Garrett on message on cane toads, unable to comment on big WA gas projects that threaten to obliterate some ancestral rock art. I thought he was environment spokesman or is it still Albanese? All the way to WA to talk cane toads. The long and the short of a Rudd leish. Does anyone imagine an ALP government will stop the toads at the WA border.
Yeah, round up those queue-jumping cane toads! We grew here, they flew here etc.
There will always be less cane toads under a Liberal government.
Perhaps Garrett has been disheartened by recent press reports that arthritis is not going to slow down cane toads after all and he was just putting on a brave face.
PS. In a bas light Howard can sometimes look loke a cane toad.
“PS. In a bas light Howard can sometimes look loke a cane toad.”
Paul – I think you’re on to something – Rudd & Garrett must eradicate them:
http://barista.media2.org/wp-content/CANE-TOAD.jpg
http://www.mumble.com.au/images/federal/howard_broome.jpg
I’m always seeing Penfold from Danger Mouse myself. With Menzies as Colonel Kay, natch.
nothing wrong with a bit of frenching the prince. Whitman said they were chef’s faves, or something.
Bloody southerners. What’s wrong with the Queensland state of origin team?
With the LDP advocating the relaxing of laws on firearms for personal defence, Cane Toads will shortly be on the endangered list.
Yobbo – I’d vote for you but I am in Curtin.
Sorry.
Some quality time with a cane toad.
Or
A night out pig shooting and rooting with Yobbo?
Easy peasy.
‘With the LDP advocating the relaxing of laws on firearms for personal defence, Cane Toads will shortly be on the endangered list.”
My God! I didn’t realize Cane Toads grew so big.Well what’s it gonna be toad.
Thank God we do have strict gun laws,Yobbo with a gun ?,I don’t think so.
Jest you may, but considering the cane toad prevention programs are running on donations and volunteers, a government prepared to do something about the problem might get the ALP some votes in the seat of Kal.
He’s still a sell out though
Forget the toads for a moment – I liked seeing the news clips on Monday & Tuesday showing him handing out electoral enrolment forms at the gates of universities in Sydney. The man’s a democrat.
Gaz, I learned to shoot a gun when I was 12 and so far haven’t killed anyone, so somehow I think your fears are a little unfounded.
“Gaz, I learned to shoot a gun when I was 12 and so far haven’t killed anyone, so somehow I think your fears are a little unfounded.”
Hey Yobbo lighten up it’s just a joke,however my vote will always be against guns in society. Only cops, soldiers, and farmers should have them.
You are more than welcome as a free citizen to lobby to have them,but the the votes your party will get wont achieve much.The gun lobby in Oz is dead,R.I.P.
I’m not a member of the LDP because of guns. Personally I don’t give a toss about them and only used them for shooting rabbits. And Cane Toads.
Guns aren’t the focus of our party, our primary goal is tax and welfare reform.
“Guns aren’t the focus of our party, our primary goal is tax and welfare reform.”
No worries,”Tax Reform” Good luck.