If the government is keen on cutting wasted expenditure so it can waste it on itself, it could do worse than replacing the nation’s diplomats with cricketers. Essentially, they’re both required to embody the best of Australian society: drinking, fornicating, picking fights with countries whose GDP is the cost of a lottery ticket, and idolising everything English bar the English themselves.
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