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This may or may not be a satire of the Australia 2020 waste of time.



Does anyone have any hopes for Australia 2020 summit?

Perhaps it's only a photo opportunity for those involved:


Cate Blanchett arrives at Parliament House for the summit with her newborn baby Ignatius Martin Upton as husband Andrew Upton looks on

A report on the summit from Annabel Crabb:

Let me cheer you up with a few more tales from the Economics group. Its a McKinsey kind of operation in there; apparently when the participants arrived they all had to write one big idea on a piece of paper then walk around holding it above their heads so as to attract like-minded folk. Hilarious. Apparently Lindsay Fox was walking around with Internodal Transport above his head for some time.

Also, Im told that Kevin Rudd paid a visit to this group late this afternoon. Everybody was standing around a sheet of, you guessed it, butchers paper when the PM entered and took a seat - on the floor. Kooky. According to the PM, he just felt like sitting down.

More cleverness:

One idea aired was to strip every Australian of their citizenship and only re-issue it to those people who could prove they were environment-climate friendly. Other ideas included abolishing the states, taxing junk food and jail for politicians who mislead the public.

One good idea:

Meanwhile, indigenous leader Warren Mundine has slammed plans for a new ATSIC as a white mans dream, and put forward his own demand that federal and state governments force all indigenous children to learn English.

Andrew Bolt gets it right:

RADICAL tax reform, a push for a republic by 2010, a new bill of rights and a treaty between black and white Australia were among a swag of ideas flung onto the national agenda at Prime Minister Kevin Rudds historic 2020 Summit yesterday.

False. Not one of those ideas were yesterday flung onto the national agenda. They were all there long before the summit, which was stacked to exaggerate support for much of this agenda. Which was its true purpose.

*agrees with Warren Mundine*