Wind farmer threatens Hockey with bull

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The Canberra Times is carrying a story striking back at Joe Hockey’s utterly offensive recent comments about wind farms:

The Bungendore farmer hosting wind turbines that Joe Hockey says are utterly offensive is challenging the Treasurer to a bull fight.

Luke Osborne says George, his prized Angus bull, who has lived peacefully under the turbines for years, will travel to Mr Hockey’s North Sydney electorate for a match up.

“Yeah, the challenge is out,” Mr Osborne said. “If Joe wants to take up the challenge, we will bring George. We are imagining Joe at one end of Miller Street, North Sydney, and George at the other end.

Farmer Luke Osborne and his cranky Angus bull, George, has issued a challenge to Joe Hockey. Photo: Jay Cronan

“Perhaps we will get the Governor [of NSW] to start the fight.”

I really think James Packer or David Gyngell are better choices.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.