J Ramsay Sutherland

Politics has pushed its head into the news now thaqt the overseas trips have been made the kids have been taken skiing and watched the tennis in Melbourne. All the summer happiness of the general sweep of the Australian population is set to be a thing of the past as the political apprentices try out their schemes to swamp the media with a scandal broth stirred up by their seniors in the trade.
Australian politics is beset with sly hints and misinterpretations of big people’s slips of the tongue and the kitchen and garden chatter caught in passing, enabling them to win brownie points for their advancements into the sofas of power.
What a shambles results falling into the willing hands of the media pirates to precipitate a wreck’