We Australians love our wheat. Without wheat there would be no breakfast of champions, without wheat there would be no bread to wrap your sausage in at a barbecue, without wheat there would be no Australian Wheat Board.
The trouble with wheat is its vulnerability to various environmental factors. Australian Scientists have led the world on making wheat drought resistant, rust resistant, pest resistant and frost resistant, but their greatest recent breakthrough has been in creating a sanction resistant strain.
Created by splicing in a significant portion of John Howard’s genetic material, sanction resistant wheat is impervious to most forms of debilitating UN economic sanction, allowing a greatly increased yield of export dollars with minimal ethical input.
Sanction resistant wheat has also been found to be completely sound resistant when placed discreetly in the ears and the husks can be processed to create totally ink-resistant paper, which is perfect for certain parliamentary office memos. It also makes an extremely sturdy brown paper bag.
make that climate change resistant too? It beggars belief, that this little turd will refuse to sign Kyoto, because a couple of other nations will not, but will happily invade another country, cause death, destruction, and endless suffering, because one other nation says we should. I hope I get my TV fixed in time to see this little germ on the petri dish of history give his concession speech on November 24
The problem with out system of elected leader is, he/she can remain in power until the cows come home. After two terms the person becomes bigger than the job. (In their own minds) The forget that they are there to serve the people.
Today our leaders just tumble from blunder to blunder. They remain in power not because they have ability but because they can smooth over the mistakes as they arise and lots of luck at the right time.
We need to have a maximum number of terms, and then the current leader is out:
Like wheat they need to have a use by date.