Unable to make up its mind on any important national issue , except helping the rich and tax dodging corporations , bashing unions , cuddling up to the Hanson turkeys and welcoming robber barons , the Turnbull team of Dodos is drawing up secret plans for yet another postal vote , which they hasten to say will not cost as much as the divisive SSM one .
Inspired by the above famous New Zealand Great Barrier Island pigeongram service which cost bugger all to run and reduced the number of layabout pigeons messing Auckland city buildings , it will ask voters if it is possible to love thy neighbour : Yes or No .
The affectionate pigeon pair neighbours Tony( Heh, Heh, Wink, Wink ) Abbott and Kevin ( threatened with castration by the female, snake wrestling Speaker of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly because of comments he made about de facto couples ) Andrews , have been given the delicate task of drawing up the government's stance in the pigeongram survey .
Historical Note : The Great Barrier Island pigeongram service was launched after the Wairarapa shipwreck , with the loss of 121 lives, in October 1894. Because the island, in the Hauraki Gulf, is 90 kms north east of Auckland and was served by a weekly coastal steamer , it took seven days before news of the tragedy reached the city. Birds were sent to the island by steamer and flew to Auckland with up to five messages on flimsies attached to their legs . The pigeongram service ended in 1908 when a telegraph cable linked the island with the mainland .
