Dear Cornflower,

Decisions, decisions...
Hansard or Dennis Pryor?

Hmmmm.

But, seeing as you did ask ...

Perhaps this will answer your question:

" Political Pryorities is a comical, critical,
cynical, sceptical, ironical, satirical
dictionary of Australian politics.

Every question you ever wanted to ask about the
nongs you are forced to vote for is answered in this
delightfully witty book which is designed to be
equally offensive to all parties.

With his tongue lodged firmly in his cheek
Dennis Pryor exposes all the vanity and hypocrisy
of our leaders, bureaucrats, journalists and party
hacks. This is the voters' revenge on the people who spend
their taxes..."

I simply thought we needed another perspective on things
something that would ring as true as -
"Yes Minister."

Prof. Pryor died in 2008 - He was a lecturer in Classical
Studies at the University of Melbourne - as well as writing
a television column for the Melbourne Age.

RobP & Shadow M.

Thanks for your thoughts. For myself, Garrett is proving to be more and more a disappointment, as a pollie he makes a great rock-dog.

However, to go so far as resigning?

Bronwyn Bishop when held to account regarding Aged Care nursing homes refused to resign because she was "responsible for fixing her mistakes".

Amanda Vanstone when Immigration Minister was brought to task over such "sleeping at wheel" controversies as Cornelia Rau, "Pacific Solution" just off the top of my head.

How about Reith's claims regarding children overboard?

I'm not saying any of what I have listed justifies Garrett, simply that he should be given a chance to make amends and that if he was to be shafted then any of the above mentioned Libs should also have been ejected from office.

Nor do I think Garrett is directly responsible for the deaths of the hapless workers for the "shonky operators".

Frankly, I don't have time for either the Libs or Labor. However, I also loathe hypocrisy and there is a lot of that coming across from Abbott regarding Garrett.

It seems that the incompetence of labors insulation policy has no bounds for incompetence.

So just who are these people doing the inspections and what qualifications do they have.

Must have gone to tender for the cheapest quote.

She'll be right, mate
WE HAD our house insulated last October. We subsequently received a letter from the government stating we would be contacted if our house was selected for inspection to ensure the installation met the program's requirements.

Two weeks later an inspector arrived (with no prior call), flashed his credentials (hanging around his neck) and announced he would inspect the installation. I asked where was his ladder so he could get up through the manhole. He did not have one - and asked if I had one. When I said ''no'', he asked for the work order that had been issued by the installer, signed it and left. We are one of the 36 per cent of households that Garrett says are ''happy'' with the work. Excuse me.

Foxy

Wit is a scarce but much appreciated commodity in a world of political correctness where even a cartoonist like Michael Leunig might be kneecapped by the serially offended.

Yes, Prime Minister just happens to be my bible on politics and yes, I have seen Pryor before.

The insulation scheme could have worked brilliantly were it not for home owners taking advantage of it.

Next there will be the Badger eradication scheme. Tassie already has a scheme to remove non-existent foxes from its draughty shores.

Paging Belly, come in Belly.

You still haven't answered my simple question: is Kevin rudd lying for saying no safety concerns were raised by the Steering Committee, or is Dave Noonan lying for saying that safety concerns were raised?

It can't be that hard for a real Labor man to answer, can it?

Cornflower... I am sure you raised Badger eradication as a joke, but I understand that this vital new program is being fought over between Crean and Wong.

Crean is insisting that badgers pose no threat to 'the national interest' and so should be imported as soon and as fast as possible, while Wong is insisting that badgers represent a massive threat to the flow of our 'wild trickle', the 'River previously known as the Murray', and must be captured and sent back to Copenhagen.

Rudd has insisted that all badgers stop with him, or is that Him?

I am not sure what Abbott has to say on badgers, but Senator Joyce has a line on the need to erect giant badger gross-nets at state borders to capture all migrating badgers, some of whom travel by boat, at night, and so are hard to see.

Senator Hefferlump is demanding we are required by God to tame nature, and is organising a cull on gay badgers, who are defying God's Law, to turn them into meat pies and feed them to Comm car drivers as a cost saving to the Canberra food budget.

What we really need is the full weight of the investigation skills of The Australian to get to the Truth of the matter before the SMH take up the cause of badgers and we find them moving in to our gardens as a protected native species, saved through a partnership between Tim Flannery and Greg Hunt.

This might become a major election year issue and demand a thread of its own.