"We can't be bitten twice," says Rooty Hill tobacconist Nasser Barhoumeh, 56.
A well developed bullshit detector has always been a quintessential element of the Australian character, part of a cynical, anti-authoritarian streak that perhaps stems from our convict roots.
In internal Liberal polling, and in my own straw poll in the marginal western Sydney seat of Chifley, people who voted for Kevin Rudd with gusto in 2007, now just see him as a big bullshit artist.
