HILITE--/ Abbott gave twenty-two million to foreigners to treat Ebola in Africa and made sure as little as possible of this money came back to Australia. It was ‘not desirable,’ he said, that our army deal with this world emergency, as our soldiers were needed in Iraq, which would not admit them, and those hundreds of Australians who had volunteered to beat back this humanity-risking pandemic could pay their own fares or otherwise go to buggery. It was now a private business’s private concern, and if they could hire cheaper doctors than Australian ones, in the pursuit of company profits, it was none of Australia’s business though it was Australia’s money. And if they chose to donate some of these profits to the Liberal Party, well, that was their own affair. It was established it was safe a month ago for Australians to go to Liberia and Sierra Leone, where they would be looked after by the UK if they were infected, but Abbott said it wasn’t, it never was, it was perfectly untrue to say this. His habit of lying was thus affirmed, and so was Morrison’s when Julian Burnside said, correctly, before receiving his Peace Prize, that a murder had been covered up that two Australians and twelve others had been involved in, and some witnesses bribed to cover it up. Morrison said the Peace Prize winner ‘had form’ in opposing his ‘successful’ policy of turning back the boats, and shouldn’t be listened to, he was lying. Burnside considered suing him, then thought he might let him twist in the wind for a bit. He was widely known as a child tormentor, and mght, in the next few days, grow even madder.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:20:24 +0000