You may have heard the phrase, much-beloved by corporate types and politicians alike, “in the space”.
During question time this week, the Minister for Social Services, Dan Tehan, in receipt of a Dorothy Dixer from the member for Tangney, Dan Morton, lauded his colleague for having “a keen interest in the welfare space”.
If you keep an eye on reporting of the corporate world the same phrase pops up with monotonous regularity. A bloke who works in a bank is almost invariably described as having a “long history of working in the finance space”.
It’s an annoying phrase, vague and faddish, and I regret having to use it – but I fear I must because there is something deeply, deeply wrong in the Canberra space.
Come yesterday, the crazy-meter was already quivering at the red extreme after government senator Michaelia Cash’s outburst the previous day. It slipped into “dangerously unhinged” when Labor senator Kim Carr reached deep into his Godwin’s Law sack of epithets to refer to Liberal senator James Paterson as a member of the Hitler-Jugend.
Full column here.
I’m still in Malaysian space, where the politics gets interestinger and interestinger…..even the Malaysian police chief has had the AFP question what he had so much money in a Commonwealth Bank account, but it’s OK, he was going to use it to pay for his daughters MBA. He doesn’t want the money back , just as well really they’ve frozen his account anyway.
I look at my online space everyday in my home office space, where I’m still working in the education space and find myself shaking my head at the farcical events and people in the political space.
I always remember seeing Doug Cameron on television when he was still a Union person and I could never understand a word he said, so maybe Hansard didn’t understand him either and misunderstood him when he told Michaelia to ‘chill out’ and thought he was saying ‘I’m going to take you out’. Whatever it says a lot about the woman and in any other workplace (sorry space) she wouldn’ t have a job.
Fair point, Penny. The term ‘temperamentally unsuited to politics’ as was said of Sophie Mirabella comes to mind.
Yes, regardless of what Doug Cameron actually asked, Michaelia Cash’s spray was seriously unhinged.
“Temperamentally unsuited to politics” is quite the euphemism.
One thing we can be sure about Ms Cash is that she’s never had a bad hair day.
Maybe it’s a wig? 😊
Hideous bouffant circa 60’s TO. Looks to me like she uses a whole can of hairspray & a Dyson. 😨
it a wig, a very bad wig.
That’s a matter of opinion, TO. She’s certainly groomed within an inch of her life. I can’t imagine her buying a 5 pack of Target undies.
Clearly, in this case, the cover looks okay but the book is full of s **t. 😨
Did anyone see the piece in the Oz the next day with a shot of Ms Cash laughing gaily, and the caption “Michaelia Sparkles at Dark NZ Dinner”. Or something very like that.
What sort of editorial policy wants to suggest that any politician ‘sparkles’? Agenda with a capital A I’m afraid.
Cash is deeply hated by her own party. I have a mate who attends Liberal meetings from time to time and whenever her name is mentioned there is much groaning and hissing within the room.
STATE of ‘ORRIBLE:-2018
Game One: Wednesday 6 June 2018, Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne;
Game Two: Sunday 24 June 2018, ANZ Stadium, Sydney; and
Game Three: Wednesday 11 July 2018, Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane.
Sucks don’t it. Er, didn’t Qld win last year? Don’t give the home ground advantage until the last game? Fair suck of the sauce bottle Kevvie.
Don’t give it at all. But who’s giving it up? NSW isn’t it? Usually the case and I’ll tell ya, a Melbourne game is a de facto Qld home game, I’ve witnessed it. They are mad to do it. Grow the game be damned.
One pass cost us the series, the coach, everything. If hog Jarred Hayne had
passed that ball with the line open…if if if if if if if!!!!!
It was the start of the rot FFS!
The words used was take a chill pill.
As for being temperamentally unsuited to politics, does the name Belinda Neal ring a bell?
Sophie Mirabella?
Absolutely. But she’s been showered with sinecures since leaving politics…
Fair go UQ, she’s a veritable encyclopedia of submarine knowledge.
Cricket time!
Maybe not☹️
Yes! SA with two more wickets now. Hard to know until both sides bat on this deck but my sense is 300 is par. Might be better than par. We’ll see.
Well they’ve just reached 300 with seven down, ok another one gone.
I fell asleep while AB and de Kock were batting. Missed all the fun but caught up with it now. Top knock from Mitch Marsh and a good 30 from Starc but oh, boy did Starc make a mess of the tail. Well, Australia are 190 in front and by the end of the should be 450 in front. That oughta do it. The bowlers were superb.
Like a dose of Epsom salts as they say, brilliant stuff
I sed to the bride 320 would be competitive….didn’t expect them to get it! So many starts but no one finished orrff.
M.Marsh gave it a go Bald.
IMO, Warren Burger, Conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice got the Second Amendment right:
“The Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American People by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia – would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.”
Spotto TO.
Another interesting spanner in the works on the eve of the election, which could be significant.
No doubt the Libs were trying to sneak it under the radar because it was not on their policy list.
But now we hear that they are loosening up the gun laws.
Holy smoke, this was the scene of the biggest massacre in Australian history. The Howard gun buy back evolved from Port Arthur.
And they are trying to keep the bikies out of here. Yeah sure. Pop down, buy yourself a semi automatic rifle, rob a few banks – and you now get an extended 10 year licence. Christ.
I shall be drawing pretty pictures on my ballot paper. I can’t vote for any of them. First time i have ever done that.
Best of luck Boadicea, am sure Antony Green will be updating us with your vote in Tassie booth by booth. Cheers
I wouldn’t be too worried, Boa.
I couldn’t bring myself to vote for anyone in the last ACT election.
Ah, when in doubt, don’t, TO!!
It was difficult, wasn’t it TO. I think I went with an independent for the hell of it. Forget who.
Our very own volunteer space-cadet Blofeld. I wonder if anyone will hear you scream when you sacrifice yourself for science travelling through the van Allen belts Henry. Try not to leave any skiddies on those jocks of yours, they’ll be worth a squillion on EBay! What am I saying? No, go the skiddies! Authentic patina.
Give ’em heaps!
Bless you dear Mr Baptiste, thank you for your well wishes but must advise due to “delays” my Space Chariot does not await me as yet but “soon”. Cheers
“Delays dear Henry, delays dear Henry, and just what are those delays dear Henry, dear Henry wot?
Really good one.
So what’s with the whiteboard? Did the wind change direction and her face stayed like that?
Fortunately I don’t inhabit the “space” where “space” gets this sort of workout. Nor have I read, or heard of this new footprint on the zeitgeist, until today. No doubt my ears will go Spock like when I next hear it. I still hear the occasional, nauseating “moving forward” from people who clearly haven’t.
As far as Cash goes she may well be on the money, but if she can’t put up she should shut up. And Doug Cameron is a bovver boy from way back. Perhaps he’s be more effective if he could be understood. btw are his papers in order?
Roll the Tumbrils, the sooner the better.
I’ll need to learn to knit first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6rctsSef7U
Wasn’t it Twisted sister that Tipper Gore was all offended by? shame on you JB
Not just Twisted Sister,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvnYmWpD_T8
Yes shame on me, but I’m shameless so good luck with that!
One may have thought, Jack, that all the burlesque is mere camouflage for the real business going on in the back-rooms of a thorough-going oligarchy. But, this mob?
I’ll stay with the “bitey dog”, if you don’t mind, and the words of Natalie Merchant’s ‘Carnival’.
HB do you ever stop banging on about those bloody newspolls…..WE KNOW……..you’re like a dripping tap stating the bleeding obvious.
The only poll that matters is on the day and personally I’d like to see the Australian voter boycott the sausage sizzle and do a Belgium, 589 days of peace and bloody quiet, must have been wonderful
Oops forgot about Tony, but you get the gist of it.
P.S are we ever going to get a politician whose had a real job, no ex staffers, unionists…..lawyers?
Bless you dear Tracy you must not read Newspapers or watch TV as they the Newspolls are all over them. As No 30 approaches we are full of joy at Blofeld.org as you may wish to view this short clip. Cheers P.S. TV’s going cheap at Harvey Norman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGdoenynrRs
No sympathy for Gerry Harvey, his business model put others out of business and now he has to wear changing times.
The hard earned in this house doesn’t go his way either.
Agree Tracy. I avoid Harvey Norman at all costs, he also has stores over here, which I also avoid. He has not kept up with the changing marketplace and buyer behavior and screams blue murder about online shopping “ruining the marketplace”. He’s also not a very nice person I’m told from a fairly reliable source….
When I was in Mt Isa last September (and you may have seen this Penny) the local Harvey N had burned down. Maybe a toaster demo went astray? I was quite chuffed to see it and took a few snaps to remind me later on.
My opinion too. He just got done in by a superior business model. Fix it, surpass it, or die. He just needs to quit the whining.
Henry, what an interesting clip…..he’s now not interested in polls…..ha,ha,ha
In “Voter Space”, Mr Insider, I suggest millions of hard working taxpaying people are indeed “screaming” and whilst they may not be instantly heard the upcoming Federal Election will give voice to their discontent. PM Turnbull, if he cared at all, would already hear the “screams” through his 27 Negative Consecutive Newspolls! Great read Mr Insider and do love Kim Cars nickname “Kim il-Carr”. A wee clip below of an unhappy Voter “screaming” in the USA, bless her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2qraZKD4hI
To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.
Hmm, what’s your tipple of choice tonight Dwight, just sayin.
As the Mongol General said to Conan, Dwight “that is good, that is good”. Cheers