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In the Prime Minister’s Office - Friday, January 15th, 2010

Fly on the Wall at Friday Mash

Guy the Friday Mash Superfly brings you all the latest buzz on the powerful and the pathetic from his unique vantage point high up on the walls of their offices.

Kevin convened a meeting with Julia, Wayne and Penny to discuss tactics for a third go at getting the ETS legislation passed.

‘Fair suck of the sauce bottle’ said Kevin ‘Penny spends ages locked away with that MacFarlane guy, we get Malcolm in our pocket and then the Coalition go fxxking feral and we’re up against a climate change cretin like the Mad Monk. He’s your mate Julia, can’t you do some budgie smuggling with him?’

‘Now Kevin let’s be absolutely clear about this’ said Julia ‘I went off him after he called you a toxic bore, an egregious egotist, a prissy, preening little nerd and a …’

‘Alright, alright’ said Kevin ‘now here’s the plan. We’ll have to explain the ETS a bit more like coming clean about what its actually going to cost people’

‘Good heavens’ said Penny, visibly shaken ‘you can’t to that. You can’t trust people to put the fate of the world and this government before their own greedy self-interest.’

‘All we have to say’ said Kevin ‘is that everyone’s getting an ETS rebate. We don’t have to reveal that for half the population it’s hopelessly inadequate. And Penny I want you to lead an ETS charm offensive. Have your face permanently botoxed into a smile and stop referring to Tony Abbott as a Neanderthal sub-human sceptic’

‘I’d rather spend another week at the Copenhagen Conference’ said Penny

‘I think we should review whether the ETS is the best way to reduce carbon emissions’ said Wayne

Kevin recoiled in horror like someone had just served him a beef sandwich.

‘What the fxxk are you talking about Wayne’ he roared ‘of course it’s the fxxking best way’

‘Shouldn’t we set up a parliamentary committee to investigate it?’ asked Wayne bravely ‘I mean it’s a huge economic pain in the ass and the Northern Hemisphere’s just entered a new ice age’

‘I’ve already got five committees investigating it’ said Kevin ‘and there’s another committee analysing whether we should have another committee’

The intercom buzzed ‘Excuse me prime minister, John Grant’s on the phone asking whether you’ll need to borrow a ute for the next election’

‘Tell him I’ll need two’ said Kevin ‘there isn’t room for my hair dryer if I only use one’

‘Well I’d bring in another stimulus package’ said Wayne ‘to pay everybody’s electricity bills’.

‘That’s a fxxking stupid idea’ said Kevin ‘I’m spending all my time trying to stop Julia wasting stimulus money on senseless school halls’

‘I know’ said Julia ‘we should give everybody work choices. They can either install their own solar heating or spend their weekends at power stations cleaning coal’

‘Brilliant’ said Kevin ‘I’ve always liked the idea of work choices’

Newsletter from Australia - Friday, November 27th, 2009

Obama Fan Club Letterhead

Newsletter from Australia

White House,
Washington DC.,

27th November 2009

Dear Mr President,

I’m beside myself with excitement. This is the most thrilling week ever in Australian politics.

Kevin desperately wants the ETS passed by parliament this week so he can go to Copenhagen and do a world-class grandstand as the leading global carbon reducer.

Penny Wong and Ian MacFarlane were locked away together for weeks trying to come up with an ETS that the Coalition would pass in the senate. Neville thinks they’ve been carbon dating. Then on Monday they came back with an agreed plan and the fun started.

Kevin and his cabinet rubber-stamped it, Malcolm bullied it through the shadow cabinet, then he took it to the Coalition partyroom for approval, then the emissions hit the fan, half the members told him to go and stick it up his you-know-what, the other half supported him and Kevin, half wanted his head, half wanted him to stay, then after seven hours some stick-it-up-your-you-know-what senators left the partyroom and Malcolm immediately declared a majority in favour of the ETS and the Kevin, then all hell let loose with members accusing him of cheating and not being able to count and being a mate of Kevin and then the following day there was a spill and a nobody called Kevin-something-or-other challenged Malcolm for the leadership and lost – you cant have two party leaders called Kevin – and so its all back to square one again. I know you’ll be as rapt as I am.

I immediately called an emergency meeting of the Obama Fan Club Committee on Domestic Politics and we framed some intriguing questions. Will the Coalition still be able to stop the ETS in the senate? Will half the Coalition including Malcolm leave and join the Labor Party? Will Kevin triumph in Copenhagen? Will he make Malcolm his ETS tsar? Oh this is so exciting.

I’m so proud of Kevin. Who knows whether the ETS will actually do any good but he’s so lovely to watch.

It’s difficult not to feel a bit sorry for Malcolm. He’s dug himself into deep doodoo simply because he’s doing his best to support Kevin and now he’s leading a Coalition of three parties, the Nationals and two Liberal Parties. I could even get round to liking him but I’ll have to think about it.

You’re not going to believe this but I used to be a bit of a climate change sceptic. However what with Kevin and Malcolm agreeing about an ETS and the hot weather we’ve been having recently I’m ordering some solar panels next week.

I’ll bet you’re like me, you can’t wait to see what happens to the ETS in the senate. You’ll just have to be patient for another week to read another fantastic newsletter exclusive.

I’m so wrapped up in Kevin becoming the carbon reduction king in Copenhagen, I haven’t even had time to enjoy the political sex scandal in South Australia.

Till next week,

Gaelene Woo
President

APEC, Britney, Tiger, Vikings & Bob the Builder - Friday, November 20th, 2009

Obama Fan Club Letterhead

Newsletter from Australia

White House,
Washington DC.,

20th November 2009

Dear Mr President,

I can’t tell you how disappointed we all were that you didn’t make it down here from Singapore. Trust you had a nice chat with Kevin at APEC. I’m sure he would have told you some dirty jokes in Chinese to help you liven up the discussions with Unowho in Beijing.

Your mates Tiger Woods and Britney Spears have both been here recently. Tiger seems to have no problem getting into holes and Britney’s got into one too because people complained that when she opens her mouth nothing comes out. Neville thought it was a marked improvement.

Kevin’s so humane. If those asylum seekers on the Oceanic Viking had defied me like they defied him they’d have been over the side and swimming to Indonesia before you could say ‘Bali Belly’.

Kevin has not had much luck with solutions recently. The Indonesian Solution was a dead loss because the Indonesians are much better at creating problems than solutions. The Macklin Solution for Aboriginal housing would have been better handled by Bob the Builder and the Wong/MacFarlane Solution for the ETS seems to have gone up in smoke. No-one’s head from Penny or Ian for weeks and Neville thinks they could have eloped.

At the Obama Fan Club meeting last Tuesday we went into a plenary session designed to provide solutions for you in Afghanistan. I couldn’t believe the sheer quality of the solutions we came up with. Mildred had a brilliant idea. She said that Osama and all the other terrorist heavies are in Pakistan so you should send the 40,000 troops there instead.

Godwin, who’s a new member, thought you should send 40,000 criminals to Afghanistan. He reckons that if Karzai can’t clear out the corruption at least it should be under US control.

My idea was to send over 40,000 copies of Sarah Palin’s new book. If the prospect of her becoming the next US President doesn’t scare the Taliban to death then nothing will.

You wouldn’t believe what’s happening in NSW government circles. Some of the ministers have been plotting against Nathan the premier so he’s been plotting against them. Now his plot’s worked better than their plot because he’s fired them but now they’ve started a counter plot to out-plot him. If you ask me they’ve all lost the plot.

It’s a big week or two for Malcolm on the ETS. He’s in deep trouble if Ian only manages to get agreement to a pennysworth of amendments.

Let me know if you would like more detail about our amazingly good solutions for Afghanistan. I’ll bet you don’t get anything half as good from that Axelrod guy.

I still can’t find anything out about New Zealand. I think they may have knocked off for Christmas.

By the way we’re planning a huge Obama Fan Club Christmas Party for the 22nd December. Please let me know if you can make it.

Till next week.

Gaelene Woo,
President

New Zealand is shut for a week - Friday, November 13th, 2009

Obama Fan Club Letterhead

Newsletter from Australia

White House,
Washington DC.,

13th November 2009

Dear Mr President,

I had planned to brief you this week about New Zealand but nothing seems to be happening there. They must be shut for the week.

Australia’s economy seems to be motoring along nicely but Wayne Swan keeps claiming he isn’t out of the woods yet. I was thinking of sending out a search party in case he’d got lost but Neville reckons he’s joined the greens and handcuffed himself to a tree.

That Glenn Stevens at the Reserve Bank keeps putting up interest rates. Who the hell does he think he is? I wrote him a snotty letter to let him know that if anyone should take a decision to increase my mortgage repayments it should be me not him.

Kevin has sent Stephen Wotshisface to Sri Lanka to persuade the locals that seeking asylum in Australia is a bad idea. The people smugglers are telling them it’s a great idea and I’m sure they’ve got a lot more credibility than an Aussie politician.

Marge says she’s not at all surprised that the asylum seekers don’t want to get off the Oceanic Viking. The food is probably the best they’ve ever had, everything’s free, there’s lovely sea views and new port-a-loos sent up specially by Kevin. All they’d get in Indonesia is rice, barbed wire and holes in the ground.

Mildred has thought up a really great idea to persuade the asylum seekers off the Oceanic Viking. On the 25th December tell them it’s Christmas and they will think they’ve arrived at the island.

Kevin and Malcolm seem to have lost interest in the ETS negotiations. Penny Wong and Ian MacFarlane are negotiating in ‘good faith’ behind closed doors. Well I’ve lost all faith in the whole lot of them. And you know what Penny’s like. By the time she has finished with Ian he’ll be so punch drunk he wont know shite from Wong.

I’ll tell you now what’s going to happen. Penny and Kevin will grudgingly agree to one or two Coalition amendments, Malcolm will claim it as a huge win, his party room will tell him to shove it up where there’s no greenhouse effect, the ETS will be voted out in the senate, Kevin will go ballistic about sceptics and deniers, doomsday and double dissolution, then you’ll all go to Copenhagen and agree a framework for thinking about things till you meet again in six months and Kevin will start jumping up and down again and they’ll all start negotiating in bad faith while Australia triples its coal exports to China and Barnaby Joyce becomes the alternative prime minister.

I hope all that helps.

Someone called Kevin ‘delusional’ and ‘too sensitive for his own good’ last week poor dear. It must be a real comfort for him to know that’s exactly what Sarah Palin thinks about you.

I’ll check on New Zealand in a day or two to see if there’s any sign of life.

Till next week,

Gaelene Woo
President