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The Secret Diary of Brendan Nelson: Adelaide

Sunday 6 April 2008, 1:28 pm

The Editor

Categories: Politics

Tags: BrendanNelson, LiberalParty, ListeningTour

Brendan “I’m a doctor” Nelson’s Magical Listening Tour bus has pulled into Adelaide, and with his public tour diary the good doctor continues to defy the rule that what happens on tour stays on tour.

I started the day at the Adelaide Central Markets and saw my becoming good friend now, Ross Savos, who runs the Central Deli at the markets…

“My becoming good friend now”? Firstly, that’s some impressive mangling of the English there. Secondly, declaring a stall holder you’ve just met as your almost best friend is sad in the extreme. Especially for the leader of the Federal opposition.

…and then went on to have the opportunity to speak to a number of the stallholders. These are the men and women in small business who really make Australia the great country that it is.

Small business makes Australia great? That’s a stretch.

They’re out there at 3 o’clock in the morning getting their stalls organised and making sure that the residents of Adelaide have access to fresh, healthy foods of one sort or another.

That’s true, but in all likelihood their number one motivation is to try and make money. Why try to talk up the virtue of a job?

Breakfast at Lucia’s and an opportunity to meet with teachers who look after disabled children and a variety of people on their way to work.

Christopher Pyne and I visited Campbelltown Primary School…

For once I actually feel sorry for Doctor Nelson. I wouldn’t make my worst enemy hang out with Christopher Pyne.

…and presented leadership certificates to students who were just so magnificently polite, well-behaved and impressive in the way that they responded to their principal, teachers and our visit.

Because their teachers had threatened them with electrocution if they horsed about while the Doc was there.

It was also a wonderful experience to return to St Ignatius College and address and field questions from year 12 students on issues as diverse as Aboriginal issues, Iraq, my political journey and what the school was like when I attended in 1975.

Brendan says “issues as diverse as” yet two of the four issues were Brendan himself. This man is as self-centred as they come.

A luncheon with members of the Adelaide business community was an opportunity to listen to concerns about an economic downturn and interest rates and cost of living pressures…

I’m going to sleep just thinking about it.

…and again to emphasise the dreadful circumstances of, not only the people of the Lower Lakes around Meningie, but increasingly South Australians being dudded in the recent COAG water deal.

Labor caused the drought. Case closed.

And so ends another day on Brendan Nelson’s Magical Listening Tour. Stay tuned to GrodsCorp for blow-by-blow commentary on Australia’s rebound opposition leader’s craptastic tour of Oz.

10 Comments

steve (Sunday 6 April 2008, 2:19 pm) #

“A luncheon with members of the Adelaide business community was an opportunity to listen to concerns about an economic downturn and interest rates and cost of living pressures…”

Which side of his mouth was speaking out of at that meeting? Was he telling them that his mates at the bank raising interest rates was good and fun or did he pretend that rising interest rates over and above the RBA increases were tough and nasty?
Steve D (Sunday 6 April 2008, 2:33 pm) #

“Why try to talk up the virtue of a job?”

Because that’s the “side” that he’s on. (Also, communities with higher employment tend to be better off.)

I am so utterly sick of politics at the moment. Nelson and Rudd and every other politician or commentator make me want to puke. David Marr’s jokes were my highlight this morning - even Talking Pictures sucked :(
Bridgit Gread (Sunday 6 April 2008, 3:18 pm) #

Breakfast at Lucia’s and an opportunity to meet with teachers who look after disabled children and a variety of people on their way to work. Christopher Pyne and I visited Campbelltown Primary School…

Great to see he was so inspired by the work done with disabled children that he decided to spend some time with one.
steve (Sunday 6 April 2008, 3:36 pm) #

“They’re out there at 3 o’clock in the morning”

What is this obsession Nelson has about 3.00am. At his last press conference outing we heard of him sitting in the gutter at 3.0am. Is that the hour he was born or something because he sure as hell is unable to leave the time alone?
Jangari (Sunday 6 April 2008, 5:59 pm) #

…increasingly South Australians being dudded…

I don’t understand. Are South Australians being gradually pushed further south?
Mikey (Sunday 6 April 2008, 6:33 pm) #

I’m still laughing at the Orgasm Donor incident.

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Terry Wright (Sunday 6 April 2008, 7:03 pm) #

Bridgit: Great to see he was so inspired by the work done with disabled children that he decided to spend some time with one.
LOL

Pyne … I wish someone would disable him talking.
steve (Sunday 6 April 2008, 7:24 pm) #

“presented leadership certificates to students who were just so magnificently polite, well-behaved and impressive in the way that they responded”

Wonder if the non leadership certificate types were even invited to the Gig.
Terry Wright (Sunday 6 April 2008, 7:29 pm) #

Christopher Pyne is a dangerous, fucked up liar. He is the dribbling dirtbag trying to drive the successful policy of harm minimisation out of Australia’s health system. The very same policy that Australia had been a leader in for years … until the Howard government led by Pyne and the Babbling Beehive, Bronwyn Bishop tried to stop it.

He has made so many outrageous statements that get pulled apart by experts who actually know what they are talking about. Even in defeat he continues with his nonsensical moral crusade that most Libs forgot about when Howards got the arse.
steve (Sunday 6 April 2008, 7:36 pm) #

I don’t understand how two prefects like Nelson and Pyne would go to meet modern day prefects without taking Lord Downer and Julie Bishop along . Surely this is an oversight of day three of the Listening tour that will be rectified next week. ‘One in all in’ I believe.