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The under-seige New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has invoked the Hoobastank Defence today in a last ditch effort to save her position as leader of the state’s Liberal Party.
Hoobstank, a post-grunge alternative rock with a fusion of nu metal verging on funk metal with an overall ska punk influence, released their seminal classic ‘The Reason’ in 2003, which opened with the lyrics: “I’m not a perfect person.”
That opening line gave birth to the Hoobastank Defence, a method of defusing a potentially-lethal political bombshell by admitting wrongdoing – followed by an apology and admission of not being perfect.
This morning, at a press conference in Sydney, Glayds explained that being caught pork-barrelling is very bad, it’s not illegal – and she’s not the perfect person the people of New South Wales thinks she is.
“I’m not a perfect person,” she said.
“There’s many things I wish I didn’t do. But I continue learning. I never meant to do those things to you, the people of New South Wales. And so I have to say before I go. That I just want you to know,”
“I’ve found a reason for me. To change who I used to be, a reason to start over new. That reason is you, the taxpayer,”
“Thank you.”
The Advocate reached out to the Office of the NSW Premier for comment but have yet to receive a reply.
More to come.
