On Tuesday when the Libs kick out the petulant Malcolm Turnbull for his blatant disregard of Nick Minchin’s point of view there will ensue a small tussle between the hard right of the Liberal Party represented by the mad monk, Tony Abbott or possibly, all-time funny man Kevin Andrews and the “popular front bencher” and family man Joe Hockey who apparently received the anointment of the great John Howard on the weekend.
But another tussle is unfolding. Last week following their rather lame coverage of the original fracas, the ABC announced special programming for Tuesday morning, starting 9am to cover this highly entertaining political soap opera. I mean you just know something is important when the ABC cancels its regular TV to give you the wit and insight of Barry Cassidy and company. But not to be outdone, John Bergin on Sky has just announced via twitter (since twitter is apparently the way we do things now) that he has
Just finished a long teleconference organising tomorrow’s coverage of the leadership #spill. We’ll have rolling coverage from 8am AEDT.
Wow! What a circus. How come both of these networks can throw these sort of resources at what is really a storm in the teacup of domestic politics and completely ignore the huge number of other issues that really matter?
