WTF Team Australia Looks like an LNP Pink Bat with Hendra Virus

George Brandis they keep telling us “you get what you pay for’. Tony & George were at Oxford together, the PM a a jock, and the Attorney-General as an egg-head.  30 years on from those Oxford days they still don’t seem to be able to get on the same page. At our cost. Georges proposed changes to section 18C of the RAD dumped. Rewriting of section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act spurred on by the RDA-scorched columnist Andrew Bolt and backed by Georges declaration to the Senate that people have “a right to be bigots”
Brandis then set a foreign-policy stampede by disowning the term “occupied East Jerusalem” for ‘disputed’ and retreated yet again.
Senator Brandis bore the announcement impassively, with pallid but composed face and comment “In this business you can’t win them all”.
However Abbott and Brandis may have arrived at their pink bats moment when in interviews they both where overwhelmed. Brandis fronted Sky News’ David Speers to explain those aspects of the government’s proposed new anti-terrorism laws which aim to survey online communication. He couldn’t, because the government obviously hasn’t settled on what “metadata” it wants internet service providers (ISPs) to retain, or even what it means by “metadata”. Abbott himself had set the tone on ABC radio. Espousing their unhelpful “front of the envelope” analogy, Brandis and Abbott come across as technological unsophisticates, which can be amusing to watch until one thinks about the privacy and cost implications. ISPs and telecommunications companies remain entirely confused about what they might be asked to do.
The the one minister who could reasonably be expected to explain something of the technical side of the government’s proposals – Communications Minister and former internet entrepreneur Malcolm Turnbull – had been sidelined by Abbott, and not for the first time. Turnbull’s concerns about the metadata proposals were reportedly ignored by Brandis.
The metadata announcement adds to a reputation the government has developed for bungled and half-baked policy announcements – others include paid parental leave, the 18C repeal, Gonski school funding, the FOFA windbacks and the budget itself – which create immediate confusion and which need to be revised by backtracking minister
 
George not knowing what the f**k  metadata is just wants out of here fast