The Red Queen and the Poet Lorikeet

In contrast to our senior correspondent, Tess Lawrence says the reaction from Julia Gillard to the Glenn Milne story (On TT: HERE) was hypocritical and that The Australian should never have retracted it in its entirety. What do you think?

ROMEOS & JULIA

MILNE’S AND BOON’S HOTTEST EVER NOVELLA
It is Milne’s and Boon’s hottest ever novella; the greatest story never told, breasts heaving with lust, intrigue, treachery, betrayal, forbidden and unwise love, hearts drunken on the aphrodisia of power, loins throbbing with the glut of unspent seed and over spent union funds, and headlines and deadlines thrashing with the clash of those two bloated Titans — Media and Politics. Ho hum. Just another day in the Opal Office.

PERSONAE DRAMATIS:
Julia the Red Queen who seized power from surly workaholic King Kevin VII in a palace coup masterminded by boyz band The Faceless Men, runners up in ‘ Australia’s Got No Talent. ‘

John Kenneth Hartigan, the Earl of SX and Chief Executive Officer of News Limited, charged by the flaccid lipped media scion Rupert Uriah Heap Murdoch to ensure the imperative acquisition for BSkyB of the Australia Network from the ABC and to ensure there are no visible incriminatory skidmarks or tell-tale soiling on the impeccable name, reputation and Downunderpants of the Murdoch Empire.

Craig Thomson, Labor Member for the electorate of Dobell whose Credit Card improperly helped itself to tens of thousands of dollars whilst enjoying the comfort of prostitutes. Craig enjoys the public support and affirmation of The Red Queen.

Glenn “Fiddick” Milne, columnist for Murdoch’s The Australian, Poet Lorikeet and activist pugilist with a reputation as a relentless hardworking hardplaying hardnews snout.

Bruce Morton Wilson, fraudster, former lover of the Red Queen, one-time West Australian secretary of the Australian Workers Union, later elected secretary of the Victorian AWU.

THE CHORUS:
The Australian People. Who?

Read more of Tess Lawrence on Independent Australia, HERE