When I first came to Australia in 1999, I started to watch television, trying to absorb the culture and current events. I noticed pretty quickly that there was this tall, somewhat stout man who kept appearing on television all the bloody time, giving opinions on bloody everything. We’re talking sound bite city here. I found it rather annoying, actually.
Finally I asked Andrew, “Who the hell is Kim Beazley, and why is he always on the news?”
Turns out he was the Leader of the Opposition which was then (as now) the Labour Party.
Anyway, he eventually lost the leadership and they got in Simon Crean, a man more bland than boiled cabbage and more boring than John Howard (our illustrious Prime Minister), and that’s saying quite a lot.
Then he was out and the upstart, smart-mouthed Mark Latham managed to get the leadership of the Labour Party. Mark had a very colorful way with words, and once referred to the opposition’s front bench as “a conga line of suckholes” and called John Howard an “arse licker”. I have to say I didn’t think all that much of him as a politician, but I liked the way he said stuff. Pretty entertaining.
Well, Mark has recently resigned, mostly due to health issues (he’s got some sort of painful disease that flares up when he’s too stressed, so, yeah, I think politics isn’t a good career for him if he wants to stay out of the hospital).
And guess who’s the new leader of the Labour Party? Kim Beazley.
A conga line of suckholes, indeed.

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