Jesus was a long-grass man

Warnings about camels, needle-eyes and buckets of dough - and dire utterances that “the first shall be last” - did nothing for the confidence of the local burghers and finished up getting our man into considerable trouble.

Interestingly enough, I’m told that there are many more practicing Christians per head among the good denizens of the House on the Hill than there are in the general population.

This being the case, I’m sure they’d be moved by the lot of a people dispossessed, pushed around and persecuted for their culture. People doing it so tough that they were forced to live in fringe camps on the edge of town, just to get a bit of support.

Happily, Australia is a wealthy first-world country, and we would never stand by and watch any of our countrymen living in such straitened circumstances.