I suppose what you're saying, Hugh, is that the comments you quoted,
though trivial, come with impeccable credentials. Ain't that just what
authority is all about.
Mairead
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Hugh Tolhurst wrote:
> For the benefit of non-Australians, aside
> from her literary endeavours, poet Margaret Scott
> also has a media profile through contributions to
> the Good News Week and 'great' debates on TV
> where she shames Australian comedy.
>
> One of her better efforts on National TV was saying
> of Alexander Downer MP, our Foreign Minister and
> sometime Liberal Party leader, that if you excerpted
> the nose, his face would look perfectly like a scone!
>
> Marvelous description of Mr Downer, perhaps only
> bettered by what Paul Keating said when Alexander Downer
> in opposition criticised the then Keating government for not
> sending a Destroyer to Muraroa Atoll to make close protest
> over the French resumption of nuclear testing in the Pacific.
> Keating said something like, "You've got to like Alexander
> Downer, you can just picture it... He dreamed this up at home
> in the bathtub, while he was playing with HMS Repulse and
> HMS Prince of Wales!"
>
> He's from bloody Adelaide.
>
> best
>
>
> Hugh Tolhurst
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ralph Wessman <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 3:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Party stories and poetry reviews
>
>
> > Oops. Sorry, I meant "Pierce".
> >
> > Ralph
> >
> >
> > >And as well, Peter Pearce is launching another Margaret Scott
> publication - >"Collected Poems" (Montpelier Press) - in Hobart Saturday
> evening.
> >
> > >Ralph
> >
> > >>Margaret Scott is a wonderful woman, frank
> > >>in her opinions. Her Family Album
> > >>is due out from Random House in 2000
> >
> >
>
>
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