Pollie Pedal
“Good on you Tony, you’ll be in the big house soon won’t you?” said a Tony Abbott fan, slightly confusing American slang for prison with The Lodge.
“Well, I call it the crazy house some times,” replied Tony Abbott jovially, possibly confusing The Lodge with Parliament.
The Opposition Leader was spending about 20 minutes at Bibbenluke, a hamlet in southern NSW where 96 schoolboy Rugby League teams gathered on Saturday for a giant carnival.
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Today Tony Abbott leads his platoon of pedallers into Armidale in northern NSW, and onto what some see as a calculated ambush of the local federal member, independent Tony Windsor.
This is his Pollie Pedal, the two-wheeled cavalcade of middle-aged men and a few women in bicycle-fetish garb which has become part of Abbott’s annual state-of-the-nation tour.
Well, part of the nation, anyway. The bits you can cycle on the east coast, at least.
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