You’ve hit on a chronic and very serious defect in both sides of government in Australia: they’re overstuffed with lawyers.

Of course it is good to have accomplished lawyers contribute their experience to the making of legislation …. but do we need so many lawyers in our parliaments that other groups and classes are are d*mned-near excluded and we end up with homogeneous parliaments that come up with homogenous laws?

The last things we need, if we are to survive this Depression and its inevitable aftermath, are homogenous parliaments chock-a-block full of those afflicted with group-think.

Turnbull’s uninspired shadow ministry line-up shows it will just be more of the same. Hardly what would inspire our confidence in Turnbull as an alternative Prime Minister in this time of perilous crises.

So that’s what the politicians, senior public servants and **** Court judges get up to when they know we’re not looking. I’ve always wondered.

No. I was thinking of the real decision-makers, the ones who change our lives and our livlihood over a bowl of spicy gongbaojiding and a plate of the finest jiaozi ever made.

Everyone:

I would like to remind you that both Costello and Nelson are still in this Parliament. As the saying goes “The Devil finds work for idle hands”.

Failing to give top priority to attending skilfully and appropriately to both men – and especially to both their aspirations and their potential – will eventually finish off Turnbull, not today or tomorrow but perhaps even before the Liberal Party itself has collapsed in a heap. It’s too late now for him to do anything about his grave omission.

Yeah, Adrien, but Abbott was one of Turnbull’s biggest boosters – or Nelson’s biggest underminers if you want to put it that way.

Methinks he would be leader sometime. He suffers from the delusion that Howard’s one time popularity had something to do with his reactionary sexism when all the time it was his reactionary racism that was the key. Anyway such a fellow’s akin to badly secured artillery equipment. Best to let him roll around down in the pits with the rest of the plebs.

Gold Coast dude/arts.
Arts/Gold Coast dude.

Go and have another latte. You’re so out of touch with the salted Earth of this country. The Gold Coast is one big work of Art. It’s a 3D version of The Jetsons. It’s of a place a 1000 kilometres closer to equator than they are called: Witeloafer City.
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Drop acid sometime and go for a walk ’round Surfers: hilarious!

Bishop, Hockey, Dutton, Pyne, Robb, Keenan, Ciobo, Ronaldson. All these persons have been successful in their lives and they know what management is about

With the exception of Dutton (cop) and Robb (economist/interest group boss), all the rest have made careers as political hacks with the obligatory stint as a lawyer, haven’t they? I don’t know about the last three. They’re rather obscure. Hiding their lights under a bushel no doubt.

What did you have in mind, if you’ll pardon the expression ?