Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Kevin Andrews for PM
Throughout most of his university years, Australia’s newly-elected Prime Minister was assistant to a well known Melbourne undertaker. His style was idiosyncratic. He would remove all of his clothes before dressing the day’s corpses in a variety of pantomime costumes. One of his workmates at the time alleges he tampered with the elder pauper corpses, the ones he dressed as Robert Menzies. After a lacklustre career in law and theatre restaurant acting, he made a name for himself co-designing two key Howard government policies: the Pacific Solution and WorkChoices.
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in lieu of attending potentially uncomfortable press occasions, he has also been known to dress a corpse up as himself, with a pre-programmed set of appropriate answers piped through a well-concealed speaker.
no-one has yet been able to catch him out.
Indeed. The spinning corpse...
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