ERROL PARKER | Editor-at-large | Contact
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has shrugged off speculation he’s been kissed by the pangolin today by telling our reporters that he’s suffered random coughing fits like the one we all saw today in the past.
Mr Frydenberg spoke briefly to The Advocate via telephone this afternoon where he explained that him being tested for the pension’s predator was just a precaution.
“You know! [laughs] I’ve actually had a random coughing fit like that before,” he said.
“I shouldn’t tell you this but it might humanise me to your readers. Back when I was at uni, we were about to go to this party at another college and some guys from my quant class were in a friends dorm room just hanging out, smoking cigarettes through an Orchy bottle,”
“I’m not a total square, I’ve smoked the odd cigarette before. Guilty! It was 1990, everyone smoked. Anyway, they give me a go smoking the bottle and they tricked me by putting some green tea in the downpipe and making me smoke it,”
“I must’ve coughed for about 40 minutes! It would’ve made today a cakewalk! Anyway, we ended up going to the party after I finally stopped coughing and all I did was run my hands across things and burst out laughing whenever I tried talking about class to my peers,”
“Weird! Anyway, nothing to be alarmed about but you can’t be too sure in these trying times!”
More to come.
