Seems Julie Bishop has joined the long line of our pollies who seem to find the need to drop in on Prince Rupert.
Why is it that pollies from both Lib and Lab find it necessary to court this megalomaniac? More to the point, why do we allow this blatant ceding of power from the people to a self interested, has been, hack?
"While Tony Abbott was preparing to bestow a knighthood reserved for "pre-eminent Australians" to a wealthy Greek bigot living in the UK, another type of anointing was taking place in New York. As revealed in the Financial Review, on the weekend Rupert "all Muslims not guilty" Murdoch received Julie Bishop, Foreign Minister of his far-flung vassal state, Australia, and senior member of the client government he helped install there.
The timing of the meeting, and its revelation by Fairfax, is exquisite -- and entirely unsubtle: just when Abbott demonstrated his leadership is permanently hostage to a political mindset that deeply confuses even his strongest supporters, there's Bishop getting the News Corp imprimatur on the same day as Fairfax slavishly devoted an article to her thoughts on why Australia should retain a military presence in Afghanistan ("nice place to send refugees, wouldn't want to live there") beyond the current withdrawal date. Bishop the statesperson, Bishop the anointed one, Bishop the heir apparent. At least, that's how she'd like the rest of us, and particularly her parliamentary colleagues, to see her at the moment her leader's failings are on such public display."
quote taken from Bernard Keanes article in Crikey.com
