Thursday, October 19, 2017

QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT KATTER'S BAFFLING FILIBUSTERS

Award winning  political reporter Argus Tuft  asks if Bob  Katter senior  has lost  the  plot or  needs  an   autocue .
CANBERRA : Whenever the Queensland  Marlboro Man imitator  and egg tosser,  Bob Katter  , rises in the House of Representatives  at Question Time  it  becomes  something of  a  giggle , as  this  shot  clearly illustrates .

Why? Because ,  reading from  a  wad of notes, he   rambles on  and on  before  , at times , actually  asking a  question . Hansard   shows that  after one puzzling  peroration, a   Turnbull minister   said  it   was surprising that  after having been  in parliament for  so long , Katter  did not  know how to  ask  a  question . A titter  went through the  pollies .

During this week's sitting of parliament, the Speaker, Tony Smith , started to grimace when Katter  rose , topped by  what surely can't be hair -   a Davy Crockett  cap made  from  an  albino  skunk?-and  began  rambling on .

It got to a  stage  where  the Speaker  told  Katter to sit  down, that he had  more than 45  seconds to ask his question . But when Katter went on and protested , the Speaker   insisted , said  he would not  stand  him  passing aspersions  at  the  impartiality  of  the  chair . 
Katter , looking  glum, sat down . Strange that the Queensland media apparently  did not report that Katter had  been  told to sit down and  shut up.   Katter  was a  minister in the Bjelke-Petersen  Queensland   government   and  like  Joh  feeds   the   media pullets  up   north   a  lot  of cracked corn  nowadays .
 
It seems  Katter and  Deputy  PM ,  Kiwi Kid  Barnaby Joyce , soon to be  busier than a  frog in a  sock  chased  by  a  hungry python   at  a by-election   if  the High Court  finds against him , have   mutual  admiration for each other .  Waving his  arms about ,  Barnaby recently  said he  had  fond memories of  good old   days  with   Katter . As usual, the  good old days in question  were  hard  to  work  out .