Via recommendation from a coworker, I recently subscribed to the Hansard blog. Yeh, you heard me. It’s a blog of the funny shit that is said in various Australian parliaments.
Wait, here me out. I know subscribing to the Hansard sounds totally naff and altogether uninteresting. But how can you not love this?
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH: [...] In any event, unless the minister can come up with another explanation for why he did not release this particular email, then he is complicit in the conspiracy of being sneaky. He cannot have it both ways.
Hon Norman Moore: Conspiracy of being sneaky—that is a really profound statement! I will start sending some FOI applications from your time in office. In fact, I would ask all the same questions you’ve asked us. That would be interesting. You are just a gossip.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH: I do not really care what the Minister for Mines and Petroleum does.
Hon Norman Moore: You’re looking for gossip.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH: At the end of the day, the minister might not like what I am saying—he might find it offensive; he might think it is unfair; and he might do a lot of things.
Hon Simon O’Brien: It is boring.
Hon LJILJANNA RAVLICH: I am not here to entertain you.
Comedy gold. Perhaps if TV news spent more time broadcasting this kind of banter and less time boring people to death, then more people would be interested in politics and actually give a shit about the world we live in, and it would probably be an altogether better place.
Either that, or people would start voting for whoever it is that says the most ridiculous things in parliament.
[Yeh, I'm going to go crawl back in to my nerd hole now.]
Politicians, for all their bad traits, have only got to where they are by being smart and quick witted. Why wouldnt people want to listen to these individuals have an argument.
Comedy gold indeed!