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Wilson Tuckey

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 3:49 pm

The Editor

Categories: Politics, Un-Australian of the year

Tags: BrendanNelson, sorry, unAustralian, WilsonTuckey

It’s been a while since we announced a nomination for un-Australian of the year but there’s been no more worthy recipient than Wilson Tuckey.

Wilson Tuckey

Dr Nelson was… forced to defend Liberal MP Wilson Tuckey, who walked out of Parliament before today’s apology to indigenous Australians.

The West Australian MP was in the house for the opening prayer, but left the chamber when Mr Rudd rose to his feet to deliver the apology.

A number of other coalition MPs were absent from the chamber or late arriving.

Mr Tuckey had earlier suggested saying sorry would do nothing for solving indigenous problems.

On what constituents would think of Mr Tuckey’s behaviour, Dr Nelson said: “Every member of the Parliament, whatever side of the house that he or she is from, is ultimately answerable to the people of Australia.”

(source)

60 Comments

Damian (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 3:58 pm) #

I wholeheartedly agree. I just caught a news snippet where he says, sneeringly, “yeah, tomorrow there’ll be no more kids sniffing petrol and young girls will be able to sleep safe at night”. Fuckwit.

If Tuckey is so concerned about Aboriginal kids he should have used his years in parliament to do something about the issues they face, instead of carrying on like a nong.

Wilson Tuckey: FUCK YOU!
Ant Rogenous (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 4:00 pm) #

Clearly, the only way to solve indigenous problems is with an iron bar.

Truly a cunt’s cunt, this bloke.
Ant Rogenous (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 4:01 pm) #

I apologise for my appalling language above — I should’ve said rat, not bloke.
The Editor (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 4:02 pm) #

Exactly the same problems that Wilson Tuckey is well known for working tirelessly to solve during his entire 11 years in government.
jimmy (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 4:11 pm) #

exactly. if all he can do is sneer and lazily whine about what Rudd’s doing, then what i want to know is, what’s his suggestion? what should we be doing then, wilson? for that matter, what HAVE you been doing, wilson? what did you do when you and your party HAD the power to do something, wilson? the answer to all of the above is, of course: Sweet. Fuck. All.
Meself (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 4:40 pm) #

Thank the deity of your choice that he left.

Who would want the stench of that dinosauric pustule infecting today’s events.

A barely walkin’, barely talkin’ anachronism totally out of step with anyhing even remotely civilised.

The M.O. and C.V. of this pointless old turd is well summed up here.
The Editor (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 4:45 pm) #

If only he had applied himself to solving indigenous problems with the same gusto he applied himself to using his high office to get his son off a speeding charge.
Bridgit Gread (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 5:00 pm) #

Scary picture of Iron Brain. He could model for a maker of applehead dolls.
The Editor (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 5:02 pm) #

Is that an iron bar(k) tree behind him?
krypto (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 5:03 pm) #

tuckey is the definitive gobshite.
As God is my witness, if I ever meet him I will punch him squarely in the face.
Wah (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 5:19 pm) #

Robert Kennedy gets a bullet in the guts - this cunt gets to stay in politics for a lifetime.

Shame on you Tucky and all who vote for you.
DB
Lang (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 5:43 pm) #

Being delicate here, however makes you wonder about the Electorate that vote these parasites back in, year after poll.
Jangari (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 5:44 pm) #

Did you catch that when he was asked on Sky News whether he supported the principle of an apology nonetheless?

Apparently there were ‘technical difficulties’ and he couldn’t hear the question.
Bron (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 5:54 pm) #

You all have said all I wanted to express. Wilson Tuckey is a [insert expletive ridden jeer].

But I’m not surprised at Wilson pulling a stunt like this. He’s a fucking bitch. Always has been, always will be.
Rabbit (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 5:58 pm) #

Total Fuckwit. What more needs to be said.
Which one is Pink? (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 6:00 pm) #

But I’m not surprised at Wilson pulling a stunt like this. He’s a fucking bitch. Always has been, always will be

Ha ha. The guy is a sook who behaved like a spoilt kid not getting his own way.
Damian (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 6:14 pm) #

Fuckwit. Cunt. Rat. Dinosauric pustule. Gobshite. BItch.

Alright, I’m off to edit wikipedia.
Damian (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 6:24 pm) #

Oh, and sook.
Magic Bellybutton (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 6:44 pm) #

Wilson Fuckey.

Unfortunately, there are many people who feel the same way as him. They just don’t get it, do they?
Nostradamus (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 7:07 pm) #

I Picture tuckeys next portfolio being the minister of scientology !
The Editor (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 7:09 pm) #

Brilliant! It’s the portfolio we had to have.
Nostradamus (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 7:35 pm) #

Thanks for those kind words editor but i think he has just won a gig on sky news as a sound technician. i hope he fronts up !
The Editor (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 7:36 pm) #

Tuckey’s career trajectory is heading up and up.
krypto (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 8:35 pm) #

wilson turkey perhaps?
alternately fuckey, suckey or muckey.
I bet his schooldays were hellish…good!
Mikey (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 8:52 pm) #

Tuckey is King Twat of Australian parliament. Nice that he turned up for the prayer part.

Here’s the irony. Christ was about forgiveness. Sorry day is seeking forgiveness. Tuckey thinks there’s nothing to say sorry for and doesn’t need forgiveness.
krypto (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 8:57 pm) #

Jesus is going to kick Wilson Tuckey’s arse when he gets dead.
John Surname (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 9:30 pm) #

From Wikipedia:

“Tuckey is one of the most colourful and controversial figures in Australian federal politics. In 1967, while a publican in Carnarvon, he was convicted of assault after striking an Aboriginal man with a length of steel cable.”

I believe he was trying to solve the man’s petrol sniffing problem.
Nostradamus (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 9:36 pm) #

Did he say sorry?
Wah (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 10:48 pm) #

Where was Bill Heffernan today?
Wah (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 10:53 pm) #

Speaking of sound problems, Gerard Henderson is having sonme on Lateline. I have just felt the life being sucked out of me - is there a more miserable man on Earth?
The Editor (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 10:58 pm) #

Watching that as well. Sour bastard.
Which one is Pink? (Wednesday 13 February 2008, 11:12 pm) #

One of my favourite pieces by Adams:

PG [Gerard Henderson] is bereft of humour. His conservative colleagues don’t take themselves so seriously. Constantly trying to outdo each other in the preposterousness of their public utterances, they become self-parodic when attacking such favourites as Robert Manne, David Marr, the ABC and me. It’s all good clean fun, involving panto performances. Only PG seems to believe what he says in columns, ABC broadcasts and that strange magazine from his mysteriously funded Sydney Institute…

…PG reveals his humourlessness when confusing satire with seriousness, dragging out old one-liners to use against an enemy. He doesn’t get jokes and can’t take them. The rest of us shrug insults off. A Bolt, Akerman or Adams is un-insultable. It’s par for the course. But take the piss out of Henderson? Blasphemy!
andre (Thursday 14 February 2008, 12:14 am) #

If Wilson’s against it, I’m for it. The guy is a criminal who, far from repenting his own sin (beating an aboriginal man with a heavy cable), wears the “ironbar” nickname like a badge of honour. He’s proud of his indiscretions, whether beating people up, “stabbing them in the back” or threatening them if they don’t drop speeding fines against his son. Who is he to pontificate on the questionable activities of others?

Why the people of O’Connor keep putting him back is anyone’s guess but it sure does make West Australian farmers look like a bunch of ignorant fools, much like Tuckey himself.
Ray Dixon (Thursday 14 February 2008, 1:47 am) #

Wilson is yesterday’s man. The new kid on the block in the extreme right wing department of federal politics is right here in lovely north east Victoria. I give you:

Sophie. Fucking. Mirabella

She didn’t even turn up. Then she said the apology was “divisive” and she even queried the existence of the stolen generation.

Hey, compared to our Sophie, Wilson’s ‘bar’ has gone completely limp. The stupid old fart couldn’t even get a root in a whore house.
krypto (Thursday 14 February 2008, 11:47 am) #

as was said of the late Russ Hinze Ray, prostitutes shouldn’t have to work under those conditions.
Bron (Thursday 14 February 2008, 12:34 pm) #

I hate Sophie Fucking Mirabella. Not for the fact she called me “stupid” (”Oh wow, hit me with your best, baby!” was my response) during the Republican Referendum days in 1999, but for the fact that she consistently said she was or wasn’t going to do X, then turned around and did or didn’t do it anyway. She cannot be trusted to keep her word on anything. A complete Liberal/Howard lackey. Totally sold her soul to the devil - many times over.
Which one is Pink? (Thursday 14 February 2008, 1:04 pm) #

Good call Ray. I read your piece. Nice one.
Bron (Thursday 14 February 2008, 1:17 pm) #

That’d be Republic, not Republican. Must. Stop. Reading. NY Times.
John Surname (Thursday 14 February 2008, 1:57 pm) #

Bron, it’s the Americans meanings of the words “liberal” and “Republican” that are wrong.
LUKE SKYWALKER (Thursday 14 February 2008, 3:11 pm) #

Dear Australians
Every year I nominate Wilson Tuckey for DICKHEAD OF THE YEAR AWARD, this year I nominate Wilson for a Distinguished OA AWARD ORDER OF ASSHOLE
Ray Dixon (Thursday 14 February 2008, 5:31 pm) #

Sophie’s at it again. She won’t stop until someone shoots her. Now she says ALL ’stolen generation’ kids were being sexually abused by their families. That’s the only reason they were ever taken.

But, according to ‘The Border Mail’, she’s just expressing her democratic right … yeah, her right to be rude, disrespectful, hateful, ugly and a racist.

As I said, move over Wilson, Sophie is Australia’s version of David Irving now.
Bruce (Thursday 14 February 2008, 6:22 pm) #

But, according to ‘The Border Mail’, she’s just expressing her democratic right … yeah, her right to be rude, disrespectful, hateful, ugly and a racist.

And by criticising her argument, you are oppressing her, denying her right to free speech. Didn’t you know that in a democracy, people with valid, fact-based criticisms of silly, mendacious memes have to shut the hell up!

A bit like if you don’t live your private life in your own private home the way the ACL want, you are oppressing them!
Bron (Thursday 14 February 2008, 6:46 pm) #

Anyway, back to Tuckey Slapper, Annabel Crabb as usual delivers. Here’s a snippet:

Then to see his [John Howard] own former subjects back in behind the apology, the principal public dissenter being Wilson Tuckey (from whose insurrection the former PM could not possibly have derived much comfort seeing as Mr Tuckey has spent much of his career in an attempt, sometimes calculatedly, sometimes collaterally, to blow Mr Howard up)…..

….

And Julia Gillard displayed strong promise as the natural successor to the Coalition’s master one-liner Peter Costello, who now languishes on the Opposition backbench. When the serial interjector Mr Tuckey leapt to his feet to protest against a round of applause that the excitable public gallery had just bestowed upon the Treasurer, Ms Gillard predicted dryly that “we will all live in fear of the dimension of [Mr Tuckey's] cheer squad … when it turns up”.

“I’ll pick better looking ones than she has!” Mr Tuckey shot back.

This exchange ended in what we expect will be rather a regular outcome - the expulsion of Mr Tuckey from the chamber.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/ouch-said-the-man-who-wasnt-there/2008/02/13/1202760396146.html
krypto (Thursday 14 February 2008, 7:56 pm) #

I would SOOOOO love to be the usher of the Black Rod, just for a day to boot Tuckey out on his miserable little ear, oh I think I’d have lived a lifetime in one day if I could do that.
Bron (Thursday 14 February 2008, 8:35 pm) #

Yeah, me too, krypto. And not just him but Sophie Fucking Mirabella too. And Tony Abbott. And the whole lot of ‘em!

But I shouldn’t really say that, I’d be wishing to infringe on their right to free speech in Parliament or sumfink.
Damian (Thursday 14 February 2008, 9:55 pm) #

Bron, ta for bringing that Mirabella to my attention. What a nasty piece of work.
Bron (Thursday 14 February 2008, 11:20 pm) #

No worries, Damian, but it was Ray Dixon who mentioned her first. I just picked up the ball (or ripped it off Ray) and ran with it, because she’s so utterly despicable!
Ray Dixon (Thursday 14 February 2008, 11:42 pm) #

It’s open season Bron, slagging Sophie is everyone’s ‘democratic right’.
Damian (Friday 15 February 2008, 6:39 am) #

Aye, Bron, t’was Ray. How could I miss “she won’t stop until someone shoots her”? Open season indeed.
1735099 (Friday 15 February 2008, 5:06 pm) #

This extract from a report in The Age (August 23, 2003) provides background that goes some of the way to explain Wilson Tuckey’s behaviour -

‘Genial WA Labor MP Graham Edwards, a disabled Vietnam veteran well respected on both sides of the chamber, says that Tuckey is the only MP in Parliament to whom he will not speak.

“Mate, I think he’s a disgrace,” Edwards says. “As far as I’m concerned, he’s just a bloody big coward. Anyone who makes a name for himself on the basis of having someone else hold a person down while you hit them is, in my books, a dingo.

“He’s exactly the sort of bloke who I would expect to use his position in order to advance something for his family.”

The “coward” reference relates to charges Tuckey reportedly faced in 1967 for beating an Aboriginal man with an iron bar, allegedly while the man was being held down. Tuckey was convicted of assault and fined $50.’

In 2003 he tried to get his son off a traffic fine by heavying the South Australian Police Minister, Patrick Conlon, and then lying to parliament about it on more than one occasion.

He also defended James Hardie – the building products company which was embroiled in controversy over its failure to make proper reparations to pay compensation to victims of its asbestos products.

And despite the fact that he routinely sledges the National Party, it’s a fact that he ran as a Nationals candidate in the 1974 state election for the seat of Gascoyne.

He has been described in the past by fellow Liberals - including the ex-Prime Minister - as a “fool” and “an embarrassment to his colleagues”.

He makes an art form of sledging female opponents - calling Julia Gillard “electively barren”. The epithet “Dingo” is entirely appropriate.

Tuckey uses smear and intimidation as a matter of course, and is an exponent of the politics of hate and fear.

At least now he’s on the opposition benches, so his capacity to wield power is diminished.

Graham Edwards was right - he’s a pimple on the arse of the body politic.
Ray Dixon (Saturday 16 February 2008, 12:21 am) #

Well, Tuckey won’t be calling Sophie Mirabella “electively barren”, she’s pregnant!

She’s due in July so that means “it” was conceived during the election campaign. I knew she was fucking around with things then, but …

Great headlines on the front page of the Border Mail this week:

Thursday: “Sophie’s not sorry”

Friday: “MP keeping mum on sex …”

I think they’re suggesting an immaculate conception.
Bron (Saturday 16 February 2008, 12:25 am) #

One look at her and her ugly soul, you’d be forgiven for thinking the only way for her to conceive would be via immaculate conception.
Ray Dixon (Saturday 16 February 2008, 12:34 am) #

It gets better Bron. The president of the Wodonga liberal party is quoted - in the same edition - as saying, “Sophie’s got balls”.

I kid you not. I’m doing a post on it later. At least we know who the ‘father’ is … Sophie.
krypto (Saturday 16 February 2008, 12:58 am) #

you know those booths they have out back of the club X, well I shouldn’t wonder that occasionally a fly blows in and….anyway, Sophie’s pregnant now or “with foal” as Dave from Albury already corrected me.
Bron (Saturday 16 February 2008, 1:04 am) #

“With foal” or “with foul”?
krypto (Saturday 16 February 2008, 1:11 am) #

well the baby will be “with fool” that’s for sure.
Ray Dixon (Saturday 16 February 2008, 2:06 am) #

“…you know those booths they have out back of the club X”

NO.
The Editor (Saturday 16 February 2008, 10:39 am) #

I too have no idea what those booths look like, Ray. Just like Craig doesn’t know what a Fleshlight looks like.
John Surname (Saturday 16 February 2008, 1:18 pm) #

He closes his eyes when he uses it.
krypto (Saturday 16 February 2008, 4:53 pm) #

yeah yeah if you say you don’t wank you’re a liar if you say you do you’re a fool.