Next time you watch election coverage and ask whether the people writing this stuff are on drugs, you can now safely say the answer is no. Julia Gillard and her press pack are officially conducting a drug free election.

She's sober and ready to rule. Picture: Getty

As is the custom before entering Gregory Mine in Queensland, the Prime Minister’s entourage were today subjected to random drug tests through a marble lottery.

There are conflicting reports as to whether the Prime Minister herself was subjected to the piss take along with two female TV journalists, with some journalists on site claiming she was but her office saying it was an unnamed third person.

We can rest easy that all three were cleared.

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    • Pete says:

      03:48pm | 17/08/10

      Should be permanent drug testing of all parliamentarians. If it’s good enough for footy stars who entertain us, for defence and police forces who protect us, it’s good enough for those who will shape our legislative future. Wonder if the press pack raised this with the PM.

    • The Badger says:

      04:32pm | 17/08/10

      I agree,
      However,
      Police forces don’t get drug tested.
      but they should.

    • Peter says:

      04:35pm | 17/08/10

      I would love our pollies to take performance enhancing drugs. They definately need them…

    • Nicole says:

      05:34pm | 17/08/10

      @Badger, yes they do, but they’re random.
      @Peter, I’m with you. They all need them desperately.

    • The Badger says:

      06:26pm | 17/08/10

      @Nicole
      I don’t know where you live, but where I live the police are not random tested for drugs.

      In NSW they are, in Victoria they drug test recruits only. There is no testing in any of the other states.
      Police may be tested after some type of an incident, such as a police officer wounding or killing someone.

      The police unions are adamant about not being tested, which I think is ridiculous. I mean these guys engage in hot pursuits, carry deadly weapons and use force as a method of restraint.

    • Nicole says:

      08:50pm | 17/08/10

      Badger, I’m in NSW but I’m not sure of their testing rules. I’m originally from Victoria, and know a few cops who have had a gripe about these tests being random, and why that is tells a new story hey? I agree with you 100%. They should all be tested, because as you say, they are fully in control of any situation. Yay!!! We finally agree on something.

    • Phil says:

      09:21am | 18/08/10

      I recon a few of the press would haev failed. How on earth do they put up with the drone which escapes Joolya’s lips.

      Surely Prozac etc would be a mandatory substance on the Gillard bus.

    • Super D says:

      04:13pm | 17/08/10

      I’m glad Ms Gillard wasn’t tested.  The last thing we need is a Prime Ministerial urine sample for sale on ebay.

    • The Badger says:

      10:30am | 18/08/10

      sounds like you might be a potential bidder Super D. 
      The places your mind drifts to is disturbing.

    • Terry Wright says:

      06:10pm | 17/08/10

      Go back a few years and JG might have tested positive. She is a self confessed user of cannabis although there has been no admittance of anything else.

      I wonder what would have happened if she did test positive from having a splif a few weekends ago? I can just see the headlines now, the media articles of shame, the finger pointing, Kevin’s head imploding, an increase in prayer time for Abbott etc.

      Which reminds me ... where’s Labor’s drug policy this election? err, where’s the Liberal’s drug policy? It seems that only the Greens and the Sex Party have announced drug policies. Maybe they are too embarrassed to put up their old, failed “Tough on Drugs” strategies whilst the Greens and the Sex Party have both had their drug policies endorsed by health groups, welfare groups and experts.

    • thatmosis says:

      06:43pm | 17/08/10

      Pete, youve got to be joking. The press pack only does what it is told to do and nothing more. They are without doubt the most spineless bunch of hangerons that ever drew breath. The way they fawn over Joolia is sickening as though she was the second coming incarnate when what she really is is a back stabbing wannabe who would sell her grandmother to stay in power or sell the Australian people down the gurgler to suit her handlers.

    • Ozmosis says:

      09:59pm | 17/08/10

      Well aren’t we an angry little man…?

      Is thatmosis nerd net code for KRudd…?

    • Louisa says:

      07:57pm | 17/08/10

      Are you certain that there are no drugs in that red hair dye used daily (now)

    • Tarzan says:

      09:18pm | 17/08/10

      If your not exploiting drugs to do your job then your’e not being the best you can be. Whether “no doze” for active work or “diazepam” for giving speeches or even better “sertraline” at exam time, you need a competitive edge.  Don’t be fooled, it is public knowledge pilots are given amphetamines prior to military sorties, and then hypnotics on return.

    • The Badger says:

      10:34am | 18/08/10

      Tarzan

      Pilots do not take amphetamine prior to a mission.

      They are given amphetamine to use in case they are shot down and need to evade capture for an extended time.

    • Gregg says:

      09:58am | 18/08/10

      So the campaign has chugged along to this has it as far as no new real new Julia news, phew! and just three more sleeps.
      Well Tony is planning on being present for some town hall sessions at least.

    • JN says:

      09:43pm | 18/11/10

      What a bunch of wowsers you lot are. I’ll happily trade freedom for a slight increase in injury occurance, or a slight decrease in productivity any day of the week. Many of the people that propose these draconian laws are the very same people who lived through the sexual revolution - free love and drugs baby. Not for anyone else it seems…...........................

 

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