News Corp’s parliamentary gift
The news hawks amongst you might have noticed we have a new speaker in Parliament after Bronwyn Bishop was unceremoniously ousted.
You may be forgiven for not picking up on the fact that in Tony Smith’s maiden speech he admitted he still finds time to collect News Corp’s David Attenborough DVD giveaways every morning.
This certainly didn’t slip past the good burghers of News Corp, who have jumped on it with this tactical ad in today’s Adelaide Advertiser promising to send the speaker the rest of the set now he’s “busier than ever”.
For those that can’t read it after Smith’s quote of “…I still, despite busyness, collect the David Attenborough DVD at the milk bar each morning” it reads: “Congratulations Mr Speaker. We know you’ll be busier than ever. So we’re going to deliver the rest of our BBC Earth DVD Collection straight to your new office.”
Dr Mumbo can’t help but wonder though that if he doesn’t have time to collect them, when will the Speaker have time to watch them?
And he also hopes Mr Smith declares them in his Parliamentary gifts register.