In Disney’s 2014 remake of Sleeping Beauty, a pure-hearted Green fairy who suffers a terrible betrayal is twisted into Maleficent, the evil creature after whom the film is named who wreaks vengeance using the toxic spindle of a spinning wheel. In the Australian version playing out in the federal parliament, Malcolm the Maleficent is the deadly prick, avenging himself on the traitors who brought him down with the help of his poison pen and his friends at the ABC.
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