Patriot Jim's walk on the wild side
Well the Desert Rat was very surprised to hear that Jim McGinty has been walking the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea.
Surely he wasn't paying homage to Australian Diggers as he has typically shown an ambivalence even antipathy to our armed forces - like many from the Left.
Was he was looking at how best to run a third world health system, to prepare us for the worst? The Desert Rat thought he would be looking west, to his mentor on health administration Robert Mugabe, as Kalgoorlie MLA Matt Birney wryly observed in one parliamentary debate.
Perhaps he went there to campaign against the mining group that plans to develop a mine in the area? (see cartoon)
Well the Desert Rat's guess is that Jim McGinty was spending the remainder of his parliamentary imprest travel account before the State election. About $20 000 a year is given to WA State MP's to travel overseas to further their knowledge for the benefit of Western Australians. What was in it for us?
Did McGinty travel at the recommendation of Kokoda Trail aficionado Brigadier Mike "Children Overboard" Silverstone the CEO of the Corruption and Crime Commission? Did our self-proclaimed Emperor of Western Australia complete the Kokoda trek in a chair carried by Fuzzy-Wuzzy angels?
Will McGinty be vacating his Fremantle seat soon after the election, for son-in-law Tim Kucera if the takeover of the CFMEU fails?
Well, the Desert Rat would like to know where the money for the trip came from? Was it from us taxpayers? Why did Jim McGinty go three months before an election when both his major portfolios are in crisis - a pressing financial decision related to cleaning out his free travel account?
Perhaps a question in parliament or some probing by a media hack may be in order, to tweak the Attorney's probably chafed googlies. The response will probably have nothing to do with the question, but will certainly have a word the Left abhor and one that will surprise his army of press corp - patriotism!
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