Our Constitution is being kicked around like a football at the moment, writes Tony Magrathea.
It’s time to visit the imaginarium.
Football is now played just once every three years and the latest winner did it fairly easily.
The captain of the winning team is Tony Abbott, but he carried a dirty little secret into the game in the form of an extra football tucked up his jumper.
The referee knew all about it, but couldn’t blow his whistle because the Football Association was barred from looking for hidden footballs. The FA was stopped from doing this by rules set down by Tony’s fullback Special Minister of State Senator Michael Ronaldson.
The crowd could complain, but it was a home game and two of them had to scrape up $500 and go to the High Court within 40 days of the game finishing. And there was lots of drinking done after the game, so some forgot and others had no money to even begin.
The game ended ages ago, so the only way for anything to be done about the cheating now is one or two of Tony’s team mates complaining to a few other team mates and decide amongst themselves what's going to happen. Needless to say, nothing did happen.
The opponents couldn’t really complain about it, because it was believed one or two of their bench players had extra balls stuffed up their jumpers too.
Well done to @Peter_Fitz for picking up Abbott's own dual citizenship issues in the SMH today. http://t.co/UmqYQPVOa9
— IndependentAustralia (@independentaus) June 6, 2015
The reporters said nothing because they reckoned it could have been a birth defect and so there would be much embarrassment for the reporter who brought that sort of thing up.
The foreign press loved it, giggled madly at how stupid we Australians were for putting up with such blatant cheating, but they were all poms or wogs so don’t really count.
And that’s it, section 44 of our Constitution written so my 5 year old grandson can understand. Any of you blue tie wearing bogans who can’t handle this sort of explanation should get yourself down to the local club house and sign up immediately.
You can follow Tony Magrathea on Twitter @dickybeacholdie.
#auspol https://t.co/qOumcu8RSM http://t.co/tRgvQgcQ7A relates to the pic @AJENews @AFP @AustralianLabor @LiberalAus pic.twitter.com/9045DGQxs5
— Tony Magrathea (@dickybeacholdie) June 8, 2015
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Abbott is almost certainly a British dual citizen — and so he can't be our PM?https://t.co/mWNVm9RUHW pic.twitter.com/irNRBlltIO
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