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Calliope said:
We have a guy up here who is not only a boofhead, but he looks like a boofhead...Qld health minister, Paul Lucas.
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Queensland's Health Minister and deputy Premier, Paul Lucas, is coming under heavy fire here in Queensland for being the boofhead who's largely responsible for the debacle that's seen Queensland Health employees having their pay messed up.
Some haven't been paid at all in the last few weeks, some have been paid for shifts they didn't work, others have missed out on penalty rates for working public holidays, others have received incorrect hourly rates of pay.
The whole show is an absolute shemozzle.

The government paid a reported 30 to 40 million dollars for QLD Health's new software, despite warnings from various well credentialed people that it was somewhat antiquated and wouldn't be up to the job.
There were pay issues with the old software - this new software was supposed to fix the problem but it's been a complete disaster instead.

The Queensland Nurses Union is making rumbles that industrial action is imminent if the situation isn't addressed promptly.
Meanwhile it's almost comical to see boofhead Paul Lucas on TV each night, apologising profusely and imploring health workers to be patient while the mess is sorted out.
 
bunyip said:
Meanwhile it's almost comical to see boofhead Paul Lucas on TV each night, apologising profusely and imploring health workers to be patient while the mess is sorted out.
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Yep he's very high on my list. But this clown is also Deputy Premier, and that other boofhead Anna Bligh has gone on a jaunt overseas and left him in charge:eek:

I reckon, bunyip, we should have a Boofhead State of Origin contest. With Rudd, Swan, Bligh and Lucas in our team, Qld couldn't lose.
 
Peter Garrett for selling his beliefs down the river with Uranium mining contracts and everything else, I'm not against mining Uranium, Australia's resources are our hard currency against our growing deficit, for a former muso who despised pollies and large companies he is a joke now being their lapdog.
 
Calliope said:
Yep he's very high on my list. But this clown is also Deputy Premier, and that other boofhead Anna Bligh has gone on a jaunt overseas and left him in charge:eek:

I reckon, bunyip, we should have a Boofhead State of Origin contest. With Rudd, Swan, Bligh and Lucas in our team, Qld couldn't lose.
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How about former QLD premier Wayne Goss - I reckon a boofhead like him would just about be a dead cert as team captain!
 
Calliope said:
I reckon, bunyip, we should have a Boofhead State of Origin contest. With Rudd, Swan, Bligh and Lucas in our team, Qld couldn't lose.
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The Vics would have a crack with this All-Star assembly:

Jeff Kennett (captain)
The Kirner and Cain double act
Theo Theophanus
Peter Costello
Robert Doyle

Enough said. Bracksy would be on the bench.
 
Bushman said:
The Vics would have a crack with this All-Star assembly:

Jeff Kennett (captain)
The Kirner and Cain double act
Theo Theophanus
Peter Costello
Robert Doyle

Enough said. Bracksy would be on the bench.
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Why do you include Peter Costello on that list?
 
Peter Costello's biggest failing was that he was condescending but he was no boofhead.
 
No list of political boofheads would be complete without mentioning Gough Whitlam. It's debatable whether any Australian PM has rivalled Rudd for incompetence and lack of common sense, but Whitlam surely came close. His failings were too numerous to mention here.
He was so bad that the Governor General sacked him and appointed the opposition as caretaker government until an election could be organised.
Whitlam of course was less than impressed, and vowed and declared that the Australian public would vote him and his government back into power to show what they thought of the Governor General's action.
Whitlam lost the election in a landslide defeat.

A couple of decades later when Mark Latham led the ALP into an election campaign, Latham publicly declared that he modelled himself on Gough Whitlam. He could hardly have made a more foolish admission.
 
bunyip said:
No list of political boofheads would be complete without mentioning Gough Whitlam. It's debatable whether any Australian PM has rivalled Rudd for incompetence and lack of common sense, but Whitlam surely came close. His failings were too numerous to mention here.
He was so bad that the Governor General sacked him and appointed the opposition as caretaker government until an election could be organised.
Whitlam of course was less than impressed, and vowed and declared that the Australian public would vote him and his government back into power to show what they thought of the Governor General's action.
Whitlam lost the election in a landslide defeat.

A couple of decades later when Mark Latham led the ALP into an election campaign, Latham publicly declared that he modelled himself on Gough Whitlam. He could hardly have made a more foolish admission.
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Yep, "The Great Man" (cough, cough, splutter) - the ultimate political boofhead. Well done bunyip, that cannot be topped. :2twocents
 
drsmith said:
Seeing the strife the current government are in he must be kicking himself.
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Well, I'm sure if he wanted to return, he'd only have to say the word.
He would make mincemeat of Rudd & Co.
He has more political nous than Abbott, Turnbull and all the rest of the Libs put together.
 
Julia said:
Well, I'm sure if he wanted to return, he'd only have to say the word.
He would make mincemeat of Rudd & Co.
He has more political nous than Abbott, Turnbull and all the rest of the Libs put together.
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I think he would get John Howards vote to Julia, seems to be the key ;)
 
Calliope said:
I reckon, bunyip, we should have a Boofhead State of Origin contest. With Rudd, Swan, Bligh and Lucas in our team, Qld couldn't lose.
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bunyip said:
How about former QLD premier Wayne Goss - I reckon a boofhead like him would just about be a dead cert as team captain!
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Goss as Capt :rolleyes:..he would be struggling to make the team after including the political numbskull's from the rights side of the QLD political spectrum.

In order of incompetence and or corruption.

  • Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke Petersen (Presided over the most corrupt Govt in modern Australian history)
  • Russ Hinze (Minister for police in the most corrupt Govt in modern Aust history)
  • Pauline Hanson (Convicted and jailed for fraud)
  • Brian Austin (Convicted minister in the most corrupt Govt in modern Aust history)
  • Don Lane (Convicted minister in the most corrupt Govt in modern Aust history)
  • barnaby joyce (has his best years of incompetence still to come)
  • Bill O'Chee
  • Flo Bjelke Petersen



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hinze
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Austin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Lane_(politician)
 
So_Cynical said:
Goss as Capt :rolleyes:..he would be struggling to make the team after including the political numbskull's from the rights side of the QLD political spectrum.

In order of incompetence and corruption.

  • Sir Johannes "Joh" Bjelke Petersen (Presided over the most corrupt Govt in modern Australian history)
  • Russ Hinze (Minister for police in the most corrupt Govt in modern Aust history)
  • Pauline Hanson (Convicted and jailed for fraud)
  • Brian Austin (Convicted minister in the most corrupt Govt in modern Aust history)
  • Don Lane (Convicted minister in the most corrupt Govt in modern Aust history)
  • barnaby joyce (has his best years of incompetence still to come)
  • Bill O'Chee
  • Flo Bjelke Petersen
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Gough would take them all on with one hand tied behind his back in the boofhead stakes... then you have Grassby, Cairns and the rest of that embarrassing rabble.
 
It's not fair to select dead boofheads in the teams. They have too much of an advantage over the live boofheads.
 
The nomination Of Whitlam reminds me of that other half of this comedy duo... Malcolm Fraser. They often perform together to sledge the hated Liberals.

Can anyone nominate a Double Boofhead to top this one.

P.S. Dead ones not allowed
 
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