Comments on: The Wilson Tuckey email

By: martin hoare

martin hoare — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:28:12 +0000

love him or hate him….we need him , and we need the hansons of the world in our political landscape..
i mean what would comedians use for material if we only had tunbulls and rudds. well maybe im wrong.
anyway i love them they keep us all balanced . who hasnt got an uncle like wilson or a neighbour like pauline . thats what i love about being an australian

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:37:20 +0000

JamesK??? Where have you been? Hope everything is well with you. Linger longer next time.

Cheers

Venise.

By: David Sanderson

David Sanderson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:31:21 +0000

JamesK, I’m sorry to see that your iconic apostrophe has been amputated. Was the operation painful and is it possible to make a full recovery after such a trauma?

By: Evan Beaver

Evan Beaver — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:24:26 +0000

JamesK, good to see you back. You’ve been quiet lately, I hope all is well.

1. Agreed, it won’t work very well.

2. It will contribute to unemployment and diminishing wealth. Probably true also. But that is not, and never has been, the question. More honest would be ‘Will it contribute less to unemployment and diminishing wealth than doing nothing’. Garnaut doesn’t think so, and so we proceed on this basis.

By: Keith is not my real name

Keith is not my real name — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:13:08 +0000

He’s simply preaching to his base

By: David Sanderson

David Sanderson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:09:21 +0000

What has Australia gained from Tuckey’s years of experience and his well known humility?

The silence is so deafening I can hear it from here.

By: Eugene Wong

Eugene Wong — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:55:21 +0000

Wilson should sit down and start writing out The Wilson Tuckey Dictionary (by hand of course). First definition - “Arrogant: anyone who disagrees with Wilson Tuckey”.

All jokes aside, sometimes when I’m confronted by the ignorance and pig-headedness of the climate change denialists, I despair for the future of humanity.

By: pedro

pedro — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:46:56 +0000

Some members enjoy being in opposition. Wilson Tuckey is old, he would rather enjoy the stress free existance of opposition rather than having to do some real work, which is why he undermines his leader. If the libs and nats want a chance of winning the next elction, they need to dump Tuckey.

By: John Donovan

John Donovan — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:44:06 +0000

I have a suspician this email actually came from Godwin, as an attempt to make amends to the ALP…

By: Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:39:54 +0000

Well Walter, it probably went like this as Wilson stood behind a staffer’s chair: ” Geez I can’t stand that little upstart. Can you type a message? I want those words to stand out. I always thought it stood for Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation. Who’s the head sherang of the unions these days? How do you spell Sharan Burrow…it doesn’t matter they’ll know who I mean? When will the media get it? Now file it on my office spike.”

By: Hamish Coffee

Hamish Coffee — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:22:40 +0000

I’m considering travelling to Canberra airport next sitting date to confront the old fella…

By: Walter Slurry

Walter Slurry — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:12:02 +0000

The funny thing about this story is not the content of the email, but the claim Wilson Tuckey sent it.

Last time I had the (dubious) honour of being in Wilson’s office, he did not have a computer on his desk. When I asked one of his staff why this was, they said Wilson did not know how to use email or the internet and made his staff print out each email and send replies on his behalf.

If this bloke doesn’t know how email and the internet works, what are the chances he understands climate change and complex models of global weather patterns?

By: JamesK

JamesK — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:03:16 +0000

Yes but he’s essentially correct.

1.It won’t work

2. It will contribute to unemployment and diminishing wealth and it is dishonest to suggest otherwise

By: deccles

deccles — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:51:35 +0000

Why would anyone in their right mind, raise the issue of Climate Change with Wilson Tuckey? If I noticed Wilson Tuckey in an airport lounge (eg Qantas Club) I’d turn and run the other way.

If it’s good enough to retire High Court Judges at 65 then it’s about time the same applies to Federal politicians.

By: Anthony David

Anthony David — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:51:22 +0000

“In the USA where the science could be disproved”.

The science of anthropogenic global warming has been going on since at least the 1930s. Wilson is going to be disappointed.