Long hours, bad coffee, average hotels and Virgin Lounge popcorn instead of a home cooked meal. It ain’t glamorous. It ain’t the West Wing.

I read with interest the words of ‘Robert Campbell’, the “sometime staffer” who dismissed an entire generation as ineligible for public service because of their youth.

This is not a defence of Jack Walker, the Christopher Pyne adviser who is currently languishing in a Malaysian gaol as part of the Budgie Nine (side note – whoever coined the term Budgie Nine deserves an AO for services to journalism).