Early in the term, Michael Cooney, who worked for Kim Beazley, Latham and Gillard, and now runs Labor's think tank, the Chifley Research Centre, urged the current crop of politicians to use this period in opposition to refashion the Labor centre rather than present as merely derivative: as the "dumb arsed" stepkids of Keating and Hawke.
Federal Labor must shake off the temptation to be "Bob and Paul's dumb-arse stepkids" and embolden its new generation to seek fresh policy ground, according to the executive director of the ALP's official thinktank, the Chifley Research Centre.
In the words of Julia Gillard's speechwriter, Michael Cooney, now head of Labor's official thinktank: "Frankly, if we really believe we are just Bob and Paul's dumb-arse stepkids, we should pack up and go home and give the next generation a go – or actually hand the conch back to the generation before us".
"Frankly, if we really believe we are just Bob and Paul's dumb-arse stepkids, we should pack up and go home and give the next generation a go – or actually hand the conch back to the generation before us," Cooney said.
Lysefjord in southwest Norway might not have the official cachet that inclusion on UNESCO's World Heritage List bestows on Geirangerfjord and Nærøyfjord, further north, but it is the proud owner of some of the most iconic images and daredevil feats - or dumb-arse antics, depending on your persuasion - that this praeternaturally endowed country affords.
Tiffany Trott: bloke, wow!, fagged, fabbo, aarrrggghhh!!! Jemima J: dumb ass, snazzy, bugger, bitch-face, arse, phwooargh.
