Who me? Boom times for the blame industry in Canberra
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For anyone who has responsibilities they need to evade, politics this week has thrown up a range of possible scapegoats. Care of new father Barnaby Joyce, we have an eccentric mix of things that can be blamed for poor decision making: drones above backyards, paparazzi at the airport, and anyone who has recently mothered your child.
Care of Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash, responsibility for problems can be laid at the feet of parliamentary security guards and the Labor Party.
Shane Warne’s mum – famously blamed for her son’s ingestion of contraband diuretics before a cricket match – must be breathing a sigh of relief. Now there are many others to take the heat, and there is plenty of heat to be taken. Blame is a boom industry, growing almost at the same pace as mistrust in politicians.
First, to the new father Barnaby Joyce. Most fathers to newborns are taken up with supporting their partners, and trying to figure out why, if evolution is so clever, did it make the human infant so slippery to bathe.
But Barnaby, whose energies are well documented, had a sideline. Between boiling bottles for the night feed and erecting the Ikea cot, he hustled a deal with Sunday Night to sell his and partner Vikki Campion’s story for $150,000.
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