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Viewers of the ABC’s Nemesis program have this week been left shaking their heads at the state of things in this country.
Following on from the Killing Season, which detailed the indulgent political infighting within the Labor government during the Rudd and Gillard years, Nemesis is a new expose revealing how the Liberal Party leadership changed hands multiple times over the last decade.
The show provides exclusive interviews with many of the big names in the party, who are keen to do their best to show why their weaselling was justified, and everyone else’s wasn’t.
The first episode aired last night, detailing the fall of the Abbott Prime Ministership and revealing the seeds of discontent that well and truly blossomed over the next few years.
After outlining the early murmurings of disillusion with the Abbott leadership, the old white powerbrokers in the party made a point of spelling out exactly what made Tony Abbott’s leadership untenable.
Scared that negative polls might force them to actually do something in terms of governing, many within the Liberal Party said there was a particular moment when they started to fear for their jobs.
It wasn’t knighting Prince Phillip, or because Tony gave every female in Australia the ick, or because he refused to take a party vote on gay marriage, or because he was incapable of separating Islam from terrorism, or because he lacked the social skills required to not eat a raw onion on camera – but because a stupid 73 old woman got a helicopter ride.
That lady was Bronwyn Bishop, the speaker of the house, who was caught chartering a helicopter from Melbourne to Geelong, to the tune of 5k.
While she paid the money back, the scandal then content to plague the Abbott Leadership, with Liberal powerbrokers saying that the PMs loyalty to an old silly woman was just baffling.
As pointed out, that behaviour should only be reserved for bloke’s who do things like cheat on their missus or get accused of pretty horrific crimes from back in the day.
With those powerbrokers neatly bow tying the first episode by blaming their political infighting on Bronwyn Bishop, it was also revealed that the only person who possibly be blamed for the general demise of the Liberal Party was that uppity staffer Peta Credlin, who is also a woman, but worse, a woman with opinions.
More nerdy and petty political infighting to come.
