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In an attempt to promote his party’s credentials in education, Labor frontbencher Lindsay Tanner has told The Australian that his countrymen are typically anti-intellectual, indifferent to learning and steeped in mediocrity and ignorance.
Mr Tanner plans to deliver a headland speech on education tomorrow, entitled “vote for us, you morons.”
“Entertainment is depoliticising politics. We need cut-through content to succeed,” Mr Tanner told the Australian.
“If elected,” Mr Tanner told The Daily Grind “I will make a volunteer from the audience disappear.”
The address is being billed as the successor to the famous “Light on the hill” oration, in which alcholic Prime Minister Ben Chifley reported a UFO sighting in the Canberra suburb of Barton. The 1949 speech inspired a generation of Labor policymakers to lose federal elections.
“The Hill” is now an affectionate nickname for Canberra monument Kim Beazley.
