When Dick met Pauline

Thursday, 17 August 2017

Dick and Pauline have enjoyed a Twitter love-in today to help promote his Fair Go campaign. Both come over well. It’s good to see Dick get a platform and good to see Pauline get humanised, which is the best way to defeat One Nation (as opposed to turning them into some titanic resistance movement).

Here’s the “grim reaper” ad making the rounds, too:

I once saw the guy who did the voice over playing King Lear at the Opera House. I guess Shakespeare and the famous building are racists too!

About the author

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.