I am told by my Perth informant that Tony Abbott is no longer wearing his wedding ring during Question Time. Since I am on a train at present passing through Dimboola and Nhill and unable to check, I ask those interested in such things to turn on SkyNews and report back to me.
If it is true the reason is well known to the entire Press Gallery who have been inclined to suppress it and emphasise instead Kevin Rudd’s delusions of grandeur; but they know what they know.
It would be good I guess if they pursued the usual Murdoch process of a politician’s ruination. Or perhaps not good.
But Rupert has clearly forbidden it, and so it goes.
Name:
Murdoch’s writ reaches to Fairfax, the ABC, even Crikey?
If they all know, it will only be a matter of time….
Unless it is nonsense.
My god you’ve been good value lately Bob. I am loving this. Right up my alley. Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with that sort of thing if it’s true love or the sex is really good but man, the context. I don’t think I’ll ever recover from the satisfaction if this were to ever get out. What would Gerard Henderson make of this?
Update in the Azaria Chamberlain case – There’s a picture of a dog on the top of the front page of today’s Australian newspaper, sitting next to a Central Australian Aboriginal man. This dog is physically identical, completely indistinguishable from my dog, given to me in the carpark outside Woolworths in Katherine 14 years ago. Sure there’s a lot of German Shepard/dingo crosses up there but my dog has a pot pourri of other breeds packed in besides for good measure. It’s like it’s a whole new breed unto itself. How many of them are there? You can scratch that kind of dog off the list of suspects, they have a sublimely beautiful, though at times socially awkward or just plain unruly, temperament.
Whilst I’m in no position to give information on Abbott’s affairs, I should note that Abbott is not in the habit of wearing a wedding ring, and that’s been the case for a while, as this article dating back to April 2011 notes:
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life/band-of-gold-plays-on-for-most-if-not-for-william-20110416-1dim0.html
Reader1, German Shepherds were banned in the Territory because of wolf background causing dingoes to pack.Theory is too this creates a jealous social structured dog prone to spite. All can be handled by a good aware owner.Every dog is different.
Haven’t seen the pic yet but interested.I’ve had purebreds and crosses for pets and working .Pigs. Nothing better.A Dingo bitch babysat my children from birth and nannied them until early teens. Every second of every day she knew where they were, only had to ask.”where’s the kids?” Would bring them home by the hand if she had to and block their way to the road.150 percent trustworthy and reliable.
Someone has been letting the budgie out? Should be interesting.
Have just read what you had to say about Brisbane, Jim.
So many of us lamenting what’s happened here.
What are you referring to Bob? Somewhat tired of the “we insiders know everything, you poor schlebs are just fed rumour and innuendo”. Why wait for the press gallery to report it – you can. Is it the balcony incident you hint at in one of your books (that I very much enjoyed by the way, but am away from at the moment so cannot reference)? Please explain rather than hint, or else if you prefer reply to my email that you can see as an administrator. Thanks.
To Doug Quixote: After your profoundly offensive reference to my childhood sexual history (of last week), I have sought to disengage myself from you completely.
I now note that you have carried this argument outside the bounds of Ellis’ blog and into mainstream ABC forums.
I say this to you once, and once only: if you attempt to comment directly on anything I write, or in relation to a conversation that I am having with another , then there will be consequences.
On that, you have my word.
I repeat Quixote, do not, under any circumstances write, or refer to me again.
Anywhere.
Ever.
And the Rocinante you rode in on.
This is none of your concern Old Man.
This is a message for your underling.
Remove it after he reads it.
The shirt you wore on Monday had a stain on the shoulder.
I am covered in shame and confusion.
And gravy, it seems.
No, not gravy. From where I stood, you smiled a hello to my colleague, it was something else.
Let this play out.
After tomorrow I am gone.
If I see you soon I shall make myself known to you.
The drink will be from me.
No, I’m in Adelaide.
Stalk someone else.
So the state of a member of parliament’s marriage is now fair game, is it?
Mmm, I would think a few on the Labor side would squim at your desire to see us ape the British tabloid press and become a gossip society instead of writing about policies and issues.
Can I suggest you run your argument by your mates Shorten, Burke and Carr to see if what’s on one’s ring is in the public interest?
More from an angry old man …
If, as you say, the entire Press Gallery “know” what is going on, then ipso facto, the ABC, SBS, Fairfax, Macquarie, AAP etc are also “suppressing” this earth shattering news.
Now we have a major media conspiracy – Mel Gibson in The Ring II. What we must demand from Murdoch – no, riot in the streets please – is for every member of parliament to prove their marriage is bona fide. Prove no affair (yes Bob, I know the story too, and I don’t care. It’s not relevant to anything except titilation and voyerism)
And while we’re at it, surely we must investigate the media too. After all, they are covering up this terrible crime against humanity. Where is Saint Julian Assange, surely he has a Wikileak email revealing all, or did a dingo eat the wedding vows?
Come to think of it, wasn’t there some issues with your marriage Mr Ellis? I’ll Google it and get back to you … something about the faucet not working…
And anyway, why are you so fixated with Tony Abbott’s ring?
Discuss please!
Abbott poses as a family-values man and it doesn’t worry me but it obviously worries the large religious wing of the Liberal Party.
Paleeeze – and the Labor minister of high Catholic and family values who’s been shtupping around, does that bother you too? Should Murdoch expose him and destroy his family? Is that fair or right or honest because this bloke is also a rank hypocrite and pants man, when not in Church?
This disgusts me more than most. Abbott- a man who launches your book and speaks well of you, should have his life destroyed because YOU are Australia’s political Star Chamber? Should we analyse every marriage, or just Liberal ones? Are Left-wing MPs allowed to hump who and whatever because they don’t have “family values”? Discuss.
Go ahead, say it. Print it. Have the courage to lay it out and watch many fine men and women and families torn apart because YOU claim the moral high ground.
I am off to puke on ‘Suddenly Last Winter’ …
Sleep well
Ha ha ha, I love tories getting all high & mighty about privacy etc. They can dish it out but can’t cop it. Has Mr Rabbit lost the keys to the closet??
Thanks for the crucial kernal of information, True Believer. I’ve already hit the ground running and word should be out in no time, Murdoch be damned. And thanks for the babysitting dingo story, jim. Best one of its kind I’ve ever heard.
The “United States of Tara” multiple personality creature sometimes known as Stagger Lee or JG Cole took no apparent exception to being called dishonest, duplicitous and deceptive.
But it does apparently object if its obsession with the sexualisation of children and its adherence to a banning and censoring wowser agenda are diagnosed as possibly resulting from sexual abuse as a child. And an accompanying expression of sympathy was ignored.
We may note that there was no denial of the accuracy of the diagnosis, only enormous indignation and hubristic bombast.
The thing now threatens me directly.
Well I shall post when, where and however I so desire, moderators permitting. I have stated elsewhere that I shall never again address it directly, with this one exception :
In time honoured fashion, I tell it to get well and truly fucked.
So be it.
By about next Wednesday I shall have before me details pertaining to the model of your car, the colour of the flowers in your front yard, what time you walk the dog and what papers you read.
Do we understand each other?
Dougie?
Call my word out again and I shall do with those details whatever my whimsy decrees.
Say it again.
If you’re a Gillard staffer, I’m starting to get a little bit worried about Gillard.
Hello Mr Ellis.
I am by no means a fan of Tony Abbott, but this post is despicable in intent and simply incorrect.
If you check here you’ll find that Tony Abbott has never had, nor worn a wedding ring.
I am not sure whether you’d just like to give him some more money, or whether something terrible has happened to you which you are choosing to work out in a very embarrassing, public way.
Well, I’m sorry if that is so. My informant usually gets these details right. If you not he were right I would be surprised.
Who are you?
He’s another lily livered Unleashed dingus.
SUCK IT UP, PANSY. THE ILLUSION IS DEAD.
Reader1 are you okay?
Yes Mr Ellis we share a publisher. Or perhaps not any more. Did you follow the link? It’s quite clear that Abbott has never worn a wedding ring. This post is based on a false premise.
I’m alright, I just get a bit worked up sometimes. Bob hinted in his article that something was up but he essentially said nothing. I read it and thought the wedding ring thing was pffft, just a bubble of fun gossip fluff. True Believer then laid down the goods. Allthumbs must have interjected in the way he does, but I missed that bit, then Bob, TB again. Then the whole bit was removed, see how it’s not there anymore? Bob’s censoring himself now, the power has gone to his head. But point being, legally, no one’s got nothing on Bob. He’s done nuffink.
And if it’s true, I view it as significant.
So should Amazon sell how to manuals for pedophiles, yes or no? And does it automatically make me a wowser theist child sexual abuse victim obsessive if I take the side of “no”? Because sign me up if so.
The following is a meaningless set of words strung together randomly to test my typewriter keys.
Abbott. Affair. Personal Secretary.
If you’re going to censor this, can you leave in the first paragraph?
Not at all; they should not. But I doubt that paedophiles need Amazon to access anything of the sort. And you appear to be quite sane, from all indications.
Well, Bob Ellis – I have never met you, and you do not know me.
But do you now see exactly what sort of a monster we have here?
Doug, Sure do. I sympathize with you. These Labor people are all plain crazy. Amongst all the Rupert Murdoch paranoia, Kevin Rudd dysfunction and Julia Gillard lack of judgment a little bit of Tony Abbott indescretion is a refreshing change….What am I doing leaving comments here?
Tony Abbott has never worn a wedding ring. This is a matter of public record.
OR IS IT?
I’m surprised that anyone on Ellis blog would get excited about a ring missing on Abbott’s or anyone else’s finger, maybe people from Brisbane or from Adelaide.
He’s having an affair with his personal secretary. The entire press gallery know about it. I’m from Sydney and I’m interested.
…live and let live!
‘shrug’
It’s like conversing with a blancmange.
Christian values, anyone? Turn the other cheek and all that?
Hmmm? Or is it all just cant?
ABC Radio news is at it again this morning :
Wayne Swan “lashed out” at our over-rich with nothing better to do than to try to confound public policy.
“Lashed out” is reserved for those of the Labor persuasion; when is the last time Tony Abbott “lashed out”? Has he ever “lashed out”??
I am afraid DQ, that if you google any politician’s name with the phrase “lashed out” after it, you will find it is currency for all and sundry to be thus described, except mysteriously for the Party Whips?
I Googled ‘tony Abbott lashes out’ and found the following, from July 11 last year: Abbott lashes out as another report backs carbon tax. But it is in the SMH. Does that count?
Commies must have slipped that one past the Reichsfuehrer. Surely never at the Telegraph or the (un)Australian!