If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.
You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?