It’s always marvellous when John Oliver’s gaze turns to Australia, looking at our politics and confirming that yep, we’re right to be this disturbed.
And last night his show Last Week Tonight decided to cast an eye over our election process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMC_ecTL4ps
Oliver ran through most of the candidates that recently dropped out for largely racist, sexist or homophobic reasons – including One Nation’s Steve Dickson, aka “Sexual Harassment Dundee” (although he fails to mention his utterly amazing resignation typo) – before turning to Clive Palmer.
He describes Palmer as Australia’s Trump – pointing out his bullish demeanour, the way he constantly mentions his wealth as though it’s a qualification, and the fact that his slogan seems awfully familiar yet “notably, doesn’t say ‘Make Australia Great Again’.”
However, we take issue with Oliver’s his ropey Australian accent and his argument that the slogan should be ‘Make Australia Great For The First Time’: “Look, let’s not rewrite history here: we are and have always been a big baking rock full of impossibly huge spiders, we’re just looking to go up from here.”
Them’s fighting words, Oliver. We’re just…
…yeah, OK, fair play.
Complete clips of the entire show are hard to get because of geoblocking but say, this seems to work!