Jeff Kennett has become a bleeding heart. How could he?
In the early nineties I was living in Melbourne and hanging around with lots of comics and actors. To them Jeff Kennett was the embodiment of evil. They all hated him with a passion. He was just so heartless and right-wing.
So, Jeff Kennett was to my generation of bone-headed bolsheviks what Malcolm Fraser was to the arty wankers of the early seventies. And, not unlike Fraser, he's had a make-over and become a bloody leftie! But while Fraser cornered the human rights market, depression survivor Jeff is now Australia's official Misery Guru.
Jeff takes his new position very seriously indeed. So when The Daily Tele puts a pretty mild headline above a story about a woman who dumped her sprog at the hospital, Jeff sees it as some kind of vicious slur on his flock and goes ballistic.
Have a read. You'll see that his reaction is way over the top -- even for him. Maybe he forgot his pills?
