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“I know I’m courting controversy and might even lose some of you immediately with the next statement, but here we go. Candied peel is absolutely delicious. I can hear the howls of horror in my head. I’ve come to conclude that it must be one of the pantry’s most divisive common ingredients. At Christmas, people want fruit mince tarts sans peel. At Easter they want hot cross buns sans peel. A lot of people really, really seem to dislike it. But have they tasted handmade, seasonally produced peel, or have they only ever come across the nasty supermarket packet version?”
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THE REEF
“The prime minister basically said, ‘We’re going to give you half a billion dollars.’ ”
The Queensland Labor senator describes his understanding of the meeting where Malcolm Turnbull gave $443 million to the Great Barrier Reef Fund. When you put it like that, it almost sounds shady.
POLITICS
“It’s a really … sad day. It’s a disappointing day for me.”
The Labor member announces she will not contest the next federal election. It’s almost quaint to think of a time when the ugliest politics in Lindsay was the fact it set John Howard’s border policies.
APPOINTMENTS
“The government should make Barnaby Joyce and Tony Abbott special ministers for drought and natural disaster today.”
The shock jock offers Malcolm Turnbull advice on ministerial appointments. It seems fair to call Abbott a natural disaster, but it’s a bit rough reflecting on Joyce’s skin type.
CLIMATE
“Look, that’s a big call.”
The agriculture minister refuses to link Australia’s drought to climate change. The bigger call is pretending everything is fine because one half of your party is living in 1953.
MUSIC
“You attacking events without doing any research on them and starting a media campaign based on your own isms and schisms is the sort of thing that worked well in Nazi Germany.”
The Bluesfest boss responds to a woman who complained about the lack of diversity on the festival’s bill. Noble would sooner invoke the Holocaust than listen to an artist who isn’t Jack Johnson.
DIPLOMACY
“I have great respect for the UK. United Kingdom. Great respect. People call it Britain. They call it Great Britain. They used to call it England, different parts.”
The United States president riffs on names for Britain. He might not know the difference between England and the United Kingdom, but then he doesn’t know the difference between collusion and lawful electoral practices either.
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