"Yeah, but with no thanks to the Yanks, Angel Eyes. Who would of thought they would have become isolationist again under President Condi? And I don't fancy the budget. Treasurer Vaile will surely up the taxes. Got to be costing a fortune, with half the Navy out turning boats back and thirty thousand reffo's in the camps."
"Yair, give me back the good old days when Costello was running the show. What ever happened to him, Ern?"
"I think he woke up to the fact he would never be PM and decided to make some real money in business. He's a media baron now. Picked up the Nine Network after young Packer did his dough."
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"I bet that really pissed off Eddie McGuire!"
Remember Kim Beazley and Simon Crean? Seems a while ago now that they led Labor through the Howard years until the train wreck of 2004 decimated their ranks. Wiped out the other challengers, Wayne Swan and Kevin Rudd, as well as destroying the Democrats. Didn't the Greens do well out of that!
"You know what, Ern? Isn't it amazing how the more things change, the more they stay the same?"
"Too right, guys, too bloody right!"
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