Debt truck winner announced
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In exciting news for wonks and fans of travelling side-shows everywhere, Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull recently announced the long-awaited return of the Coalition’s Debt Truck — the billboard on wheels that travels around the countryside broadcasting Australia’s national debt figure. This morning, @TurnbullMalcolm put the call-out on Twitter for suggestions of where to send the journeying jalopy:
We know Crikey readers are always eager to help a politician in need, so we’re collecting ideas here for the embattled leader. Leave your suggestion in the comments below — the best one will win a pack of Crikey swag. UPDATE: AND THE WINNER IS… Matthew Rodd, who said: “I’m moving house shortly. Do you think I could borrow it?” Congrats Matthew, if you can get in touch we’ll send you some nifty prizes — First Dog has included your answer in today’s cartoon, which is a prize in itself. Kudos to skink for our other favourite entry, which didn’t answer the question but we thought deserved a special mention:
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43 Comments
John Grant Motors and exchange it for a ute.
Sell it on ebay and donate the proceeds to the national debt - that would demonstrate a practical step towards the problem and would make Sarah Palin proud.
All the towns listed in the “I’ve been everywhere” song.
Clearly, it’s needed in the Solomon Islands.
The tiny island of Vangunu to be more specific.
I believe they need a logging truck.
Have BHP bury it in one of their mines http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/09/2620966.htm
I’d like to see it on an edge of cliff somewhere with Malcolm and Abbott in the front seat … then drive off, Thelma & Louise style
Send it to the 1950s where their climate change policies are.
Get real Liberals. If you want people to take notice, you’re going to have to pimp that truck up a bit. Then start doing laps of the main in regional towns, windows down, gangsta rap blasting - then we’ll sit up and take notice, yo…
Send it around the country doing what Turnbull has managed to achieve in his political career …. donuts
Along every road, bridge and overpass that debt is building. without any smell of irony to be found within the plums of diesel it’ll spew out.
Send it to Xinjiang.
Hopefully there will be a media blackout so we will be spared Turbull’s laments for a while.
I’m moving house shortly. Do you thinhk I could borrow it?
If Turnbull doesn’t want the government to spend more money solving our nation’s problems, perhaps he can turn his debt truck into a home for the homeless. And all the hot air he expels should keep our less fortunate citizens warm this Winter!
can we call it the “Please Will You Just Shut the F*ck Up Truck”?
Can’t send it anywhere, the fuel is too expensive.
Back to 1996 where the stunt belongs.
Into the hole he’s been digging for himself since Utegate.
If I were trying to hype this thing right up and polarise the community, I’d be sending the debt truck to every maternity ward in the country.
Somewhere, sometime soon there will be a child born in Australia who will, at some time in the their adult life be able to proclaim:
“We have finally paid off Rudd’s Debt”!
He should send it back to John Howard’s place to pick up the rest of the stuff he inherited after the death of the Howard Government and has forgotten about until now. There’s a musty old pile of children overboard, a few policies of environmental denial, and some rare examples of ignorant spin that were quite popular when they came out and might be worth something again.
Perhaps a nice bit of circle work during an AFL game at the MCG on the weekend?
A tour to each of the countries in the G20. Maybe Malcolm will get a bit of perspective on the issue.
Ship it to the US. They have serious debt problems courtesy of G W Bush. Our debts will be paid fairly painlessly when our economy recovers but the US will have much more difficulty.
Is the symbolism right? A truck with a picture of a bomb on it. Good thing they are not driving it around Baghdad. Truck bombs seem to lack voter appeal over there.
They have a lot of publicity vehicles driving in front of the riders at the Tour de France. It would look great there!
Send it to six months before the next election. Where it should have been all along.
I’d like to see it carrying the 12 carat gold coffin down Freeway 101 from LA to Neverland ahead of the Jackson family motorcade where it could be permanently parked amongst all the other kiddy theme rides.
I’d like to see it travelling the same route as Brendan Nelson’s Listening Tour. Fitting, as Turnbull’s going the same way as Nelson.
Treasury -> Godwin Grech house-> AFP-> Malcolm’s office(Hockeys?)->Newspoll -> ???
People, people
It is most disappointing that there is so much negativity about Malcolm’s bright new idea.
There seems to be a lack of serious suggestions.
To me it is clear that the best place for the truck is following Malcolm around. It seems to be large enough to carry his ego. This would relieve him of a great weight and allow him to devote all his energies to unwarranted slurs and accusations.
log every HIH and FAI premises into the sat/nav and send away
the 320mill is almost the exact amount squandered
and I think tonka turnbull had the truck backed up to that one
Send it over to Mr Costello’s house.
I suggested he bend over and we’ll send it up there.
maybe the guvvie should send a prius with 2obillion mounted on it
and follow the big truck to remind people that this is the saving offered by
mal and joe
Where the sun don’t shine (and I don’t mean Melbourne)!
On the contrary. I’d been led to believe that was where the sun DID shine
Or drive it up on top of Uluru, so that all our dispossessed, disenfranchised, discriminated, disinfrastructured, uneducated, unemployed, depressed, hope-less petrol-sniffing Aboriginal people (doesn’t matter if it’s a cultural insult to walk on the rock, does it?) can be alerted to the fact that Rudd is spending billions on everything except them (in return for our ripping off of the entire continent) and that Turnbull would spend even less.
Castlemaine! Film themselves doing some circle work on a country road intersection and put it on Facebook. What’s the worst that could happen?
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/834597/vic-police-catch-hoon-with-website-help
there is a small town in Norway near Stjoral called Hell.
he could take it there
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Station
and just so you know, right now the Debt Truck is currently parked on the verge alongside Great Eastern Highway in Belmont, Western Australia.
I just drove past it.
You never have an aerosol when you need one
if he was as smart as his mail
he’d park it outside his own house
for a few days until he realised what
a complete trashing his brand was
getting by dumbing down
Malcolm Turnbull has asked for guidance? Well then if he’s in the debt truck cabin heading down the yellow brick road he’ll find the rainbow along with those lessons of life already learned from Kerry Packer and the Republican movement. Malcolm. Fifteen minutes of fame usually satisfies most of us.
Take it on the great Aussie pub crawl. His leadership days are numbered (until 12 months out from the next election) so he might as well go out and get pissed as a fart and enjoy himself.
What a hypocrite is Turnbull. As a wealthy ex-merchant banker, he made a fortune, literally, from the debt-and-lending game. He made a fortune from others’ debt!
take it on the last ever john farnham tour.
that way it will be on the road for years !!!!