Election of the morons intensifies

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We’ve had plenty of them this week:

  • LNP’s Jeremy Hearn and Jessica Whelan hating on Muslims
  • LNP’s Peter Killin and Gurpal Singh hating on LGBTI;
  • ALP’s Luke Creasey joking about rape;
  • ALP Wayne Kurnorth hating on Jews;
  • LNP’s Sachin Joshi hating on women;
  • ON’s Ross MacDonald and Steve Dickson going the grope;
  • ON’s James Ashby doing an NRA bender.

And today let’s add John Alexander for this forehand into the bottom of the net:

John Alexander, the sitting Liberal MP for Bennelong, has sought to downplay his comments that Australia’s climate policy priority in the Pacific should be helping people “move to higher ground” rather than curbing coal.

Mr Alexander told a forum at the Epping Uniting Church on Monday Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama recently asked Australia, “please stop burning coal, you know the water level’s just coming up and it’s threatening our communities”, according to audio obtained by the Herald and The Age.

Did I miss anybody?

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Presumably we can conclude that this is the plan for the nation. Tearing at each other’s throats as it all goes to shit.

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.