Danna Vale Finally Loses It

Ah, Danna Vale. We forget, in these days of complete lack of ministerial responsibility, that one Howard Government minister (and one only) did actually take one for the team after the 2004 election - Danna `Brave and True' Vale. But even she has managed to wreak havoc from beyond the ministerial grave. First came the revelation that she was, as a parliamentary report put it, `asleep at the wheel' when she should have been, erm, making sure Gallipoli wasn't being dug up and turned into a six lane highway.

Not content to leave well enough alone, what's her solution? build another one! and not only build another one - build it in Aussie Land! No going to some horrid garlic-stinky foreign country! Plenty of transport, easy convenient access to McDonalds and Starbucks! I say it'd look just darling right next to The Big Banana.