indignation

Strewth! What was the Aussie PM to do? Tell people that he doesn’t fancy Kylie? Australia’s paroxysm of indignation over a cheeky podcast is the very reason we get the politicians we do – wary, colourless, inauthentic and boring: EITHNE TYNAN

A few years before he died, Australian comedian Barry Humphries, creator of Dame Edna and philandering alcoholic politician Sir Les…