ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
The Prime Minister has embraced his inner furry this morning after getting down on all fours and barking like a dog after being told to by sporting and racing tsar Peter V’Landys.
An extraordinary start to the day for Anthony Albanese but one his office claims was totally necessary after pushing out the gambling advertising ban another year. That decision has been unanimously panned by Parliament, social groups and people who just want to watch sport in peace.
The Advocate is not suggesting that the ban’s postponement was done so on the orders of the NSW Racing boss and NRL Chairman but this recent act this morning does not bode well for a government heading to an election next year.
Mobile sports betting and poker machines are some of the most malignant, harmful forces on the fabric of our society and preventing the wholesale advertising of those disgraceful facets of Australian life is widely seen as a good thing.
Meaning the Albanese Government’s limp-wristed, weak response to the gambling lobby is extremely disappointing and unbecoming of a Labor Government and will only improve their chances of having to govern from minor at the next parliament. Or the Coalition might shit it in, who knows.
Back to the top floor of the NRL’s headquarters at Moore Park this morning, after a short non-nonsense meeting, Peter asked Albo to get down on the floor and bark like a dog.
Albo did it and really put some effort into it. He yapped like Toto, he did big doggo bellows like the Kirribilli House Alsatians that keep him safe at night.
Peter laughed and asked him to bark for him. Albo obliged him and went the extra mile to gnaw at his shoelaces.
Peter laughed again.
More to come.
