Maurice and the Dream Time.

Maurice Newman is the Chief Business Advisor to Tony Abbot, the Australian Prime Minister. Now, Tony Abbot is known for some pretty inept statements, but our Maurice has gone one better. He says that global warming isn’t happening, that it’s all a plot by the United Nations to rule the world. The scientists disagree, so shall we be kind and suggest that somebody had probably spiked his barbie beer? Yes, let’s.

Aussies are interesting people. Down there, Down Under, it seems the qualification for being a VIP is the ability to count the empty stubbies on the fingers of a rugby team. If only they’d make it scotch bottles, I might think of emigrating.