HOW WE SEE IT! Political rabbits in plague proportions

Is it just me or are there actually a lot more rabbits around this Easter?

Of course, I don’t mean the cute bunny type - although there are a great deal more than them around on the farm fighting everything from cattle to kangaroos for feed - but the political brand of “rabbit” as Easter strikes in the thick of the Federal Election campaign.

The major parties have, in most cases, enough sense and/or minders to avoid too many blunders and bloopers and outrageous policies to mostly leave them off the “rabbit” list.

Perhaps firebrand NT Senator Jacinta Price this past week scores a mention for using the Make Australia Great Again phrase after having scored as a Christmas present a MAGA hat… with the pics of her Christmas joke coming out to haunt her.

And the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese scores a tick in the box of being a bit of a rabbit for his attempt after the Federal Budget to get on board with youth lingo.

In denouncing the Opposition’s economic plans, Albo threw down: “they are delulu with no solulu’’.

His onstage tumble was a bit of a rabbit move, but just like Peter Dutton’s stray kick of the footy taking out a camera man, not more than a clumsy accident.

Queensland Independent Bob Katter is no real bunny, his popularity and staying power proof of that, but he regularly comes out with some rabbit-like comments. He is not wrong that in what looks such a tight election that he has real value as a successful Independent. 

But the “you have to buy my vote. And I’m telling you what, I sell it very expensively… like the gunfighter at OK Ca Roule’’ was, well, odd.

I’m not sure there needs to be a shootout, Bob!

Katter has a local flavour, something that Clive Palmer and his Trumpet of Patriots Party, which is dishing out more money on the campaign than the majors, does also… afterall, he has property interests in the region.

The name, for mine, is a rabbit-esque move, but it seems Palmer’s also picked some bunnies to run for the Trumpet of Patriots. David Kaye, the ToP candidate for Reid in Sydney, is banned from providing health services as a risk to public safety; Wide Bay candidate Gabrial Pennicot was convicted and jailed for fraud in 2011. Pennicott, who was sentenced to four years and seven months in jail, was extradited from Canada and found guilty in a Victorian court for 23 fraud-related charges.

And Michael Norman Jessop, is running in the Brisbane seat of Dickson — against Opposition Leader Peter Dutton — and is facing criminal and weapons charges.

It is like a plague!