I love a rollicking book of insults as much as the next person. In typical Australian style they lean towards brutality, with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. The NSW Legislative Assembly ‘Bear Pit’ specialises in this kind of insult, such as when Robert Askin said of the Labor MP Cliff Mallam, ‘If you jumped into a cesspool, the maggots would jump out’.
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