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By Situation Theatre 24/6/2020
It came shortly after he lost a duel with a wet newspaper.
Back in October 1989, then Treasurer Paul Keating said of the then Shadow Treasurer Dr John Hewson that his Parliamentary performance was the “limpest I have ever seen. It was like being flogged with a warm lettuce. It was like being mauled by a dead sheep.”
Current Labor leader Antony Albanese spent lunchtime making overtures to coal fetishist Scott Morrison, including flirting with supporting carbon capture and storage and backing the Government’s energy technology road map.
Unfortunately for the self-proclaimed Tory fighter, he has since spent the afternoon getting flogged by a warm lettuce, a wet newspaper, and a dead sheep.