Page 5756 - Week 15 - Thursday, 10 December 2009
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Giving respect where it is due, I will go first to the Leader of the Opposition. The Chief Minister in the twilight of his leadership likes to mouth comforting phrases rather than face up to the reality of the resurgent and activist Canberra Liberals. As a reminder of that resurgence for Mr Seselja, the tune is The Boys Are Back in Town. Just back from la bella Italia, Mr Smyth is pining for pizzas and gelato, so for him the great cannon of cheesy faux Italian songs, of which Arrivederci Roma and Three Coins in the Fountain would be most appropriate.
The Police always give me inspiration and I was thinking of Mr Hanson, especially in light of the outburst by a columnist this week—perhaps Oh My God. Mr Doszpot is a great supporter of soccer—sorry, football—and there are many great anthems. But the standout one of course is You’ll Never Walk Alone. Mr Coe has been called conservative but he is no Luddite. He is down with technology and therefore his iPod is pretty well organised. None of the music is very modern, though. I understand he has a great penchant for Simon and Garfunkel. His collection is incomplete so I will add You Can Call Me Al.
For Mr Speaker, as a veteran environmentalist, the whole Midnight Oil songbook comes to mind—perhaps Beds are Burning, Maralinga and Antarctica. Ms Hunter, the Greens spokesman on Treasury matters, has a really big iPod, which I understand supports the uploading of album covers as well. For her The Who By Numbers. While she listens she can join the dots on the front and have the four characters emerge completely.
When I was listening to Ms Bresnan this morning during Assembly business I was immediately reminded of the Adam and the Ants song Goody Two Shoes. Ms Le Couteur is a great advocate for animal welfare and has done a lot for chickens this year. Rumour has it that she is moving on to something larger. So for Ms Le Couteur Cows With Guns. For Ms Porter it was a lay-down misere, so a belting version of It Should Have Been Me.
Mr Hargreaves will have plenty of time for his favourite pastime. When I was thinking about that I was reminded of a great fisherman actor, Spencer Tracy, he of The Old Man and the Sea fame. But I thought of a much earlier movie, Captains Courageous, where Tracy sings the song that my father used to sing when we went fishing, which goes—and I will not sing it—“Yo ho, little fishy, don’t cry, don’t cry”.
I thought of Andrew Barr and there was so much you could say. There was “Bar Bar Bar Barbara Ann”, but that is a bit cliched. Then I got thinking about Mr Barr’s jump to the right, but I could not give him the Time Warp. I thought about Angus from AC/DC. I thought anything from AC/DC would do because Mr Barr secretly covets that blazer. Angus makes him a great role model and, after some thought, the choice was obvious—Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
I was tempted for Ms Gallagher to go for the old musical song “K-K-K-Katy, beautiful Katy, you’re the only g-g-g-girl that I adore”, but that is just naff. And then there was I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, but that is just silly. Ms Gallagher reminds us all the time that she has an enormous brain so the choice was pretty obvious. It is Brainy by The National.
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