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The pilot light of purpose

Spare us, Jimbo

2 September 2023

9:00 AM

2 September 2023

9:00 AM

Let’s face it, I don’t mind a bit of hyperbole – should that be hyperbowl? – from time to time. But Jimbo, our current federal Treasurer, has really hit new highs (or lows) when he started banging on about the ‘pilot light of purpose’.

Evidently, ‘if you don’t have that pilot light of purpose in you, then you’ve got no business being here in our line of work’.

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