Politeness be jiggered, politeness be hanged
Politeness be jumbled and tumbled and banged
It’s really a matter of putting on face
Politeness has nothing to do with the case.
When new NSW Labor Premier Chris Minns and his predecessor Dominic Perrottet joined in mutual post-election admiration of the ‘respect and civility’ with which they conducted their ‘courteous campaign’, did this really, in the words of one commentator, ‘change the political dynamic in NSW’? Or was it, as Norman Lindsay’s Magic Pudding says, merely ‘a matter of putting on face’ for the sake of political appearances.
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