Not many people see Laurie Ferguson, the Labor member for my old seat of Werriwa, as a raconteur. With his huge pudding-shaped head and slept-in suits, he looks more like a political abnormality, a misplaced chromosome in the DNA of democracy. Behind his gruff image, however, lies an effervescent wit.
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