Dinosaurs, disgruntled employees, Chinese spies, Titanic enterprises, JFK rip-offs, unpaid taxes, smacking Senate bottoms, strange circular self-generating taxation schemes and so on. Professor Palmer has introduced a plethora of concepts into the public discourse over the last couple of years; arguably none of them of any merit.

Just when it looked like our democracy had sensibly rid itself of the self-serving antics of the likes of Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, along comes the new spoilt rich kid on the block, eager for our attention.