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Wary of facing opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull directly on the global credit crunch, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has instead used a specially-convened TV show to discuss his plans for Australia’s economy.
An Audience With The Prime Minister had Mr Rudd taking questions at Seven’s studios in North Ryde from a hand-picked group of Sunrise viewers. There was also a cooking segment and weather with Monique Wright.
This act is perhaps the greatest affront to the primacy of the lower house within the Westminster system since 1653, when the Rump Parliament was dismissed by Sunrise executive producer Adam Boland.
Although passing legislation through An Audience With The Prime Minister is easy enough for Mr Rudd, he still needs the numbers where it counts: when Alf convenes a Summer Bay town meeting at the diner.
The Prime Minister blamed the crisis on the greed of “the Gordon Geckos of the modern day”, referring to a character in a 1987 film about insider trading, a practice not generally associated with the current crisis. Other 1980s movies not relevant to the crisis include St Elmo’s Fire, The Breakfast Club and, of course, Top Gun.
Actual driving forces behind the crisis include government interference in the housing market and a widespread desire to own a home you cannot afford. Mr Rudd must know this, but why he hasn’t gotten around to mentioning it yet—that’s a read head-scratcher. Maybe he wants to pick the right moment.
The crisis finally broke when speculators bid up the size of Sunrise host David Koch’s ego to an unsustainable level. Many investors had assumed that Mr Koch’s head could always get bigger but, in reality, one man can only be so much of a wanker.
- a copy of Wall Street on Blu-Ray so next time he drops 80s movie references you know what he’s crapping on about
- two hours of bonus footage of Kevin Rudd ranting about greed to his butler
- 22 million temporary special-purpose exemptions from the Emissions Trading Scheme
- fifty bucks to go buy yourself something nice
- a plan to replace capitalism with something better the moment—the very moment—Rudd can think of what that is
- a Sunrise t-shirt
Empty most of the year, Australia's House of Representatives chamber was opened in 1988 as a backup should Seven Network studios not be available during a national crisis.
