The coalition’s shadow minister for Education, Christopher Pyne, is an early frontrunner in the contest to find the most absurd example of hyperbole in political year 2012.
In a clip from an interview shown on ABC television news tonight, Pyne described Julia Gillard’s poker machine policy and her treatment of Andrew Wilkie as “what many regard as the most ruthless political act since Richard III disposed of his nephews in the Tower of London”.
The 2012 Australian Political HyperBowl
- (1) Listen to Christopher Pyne

[…] Last night – after returning from a long weekend in the nation’s capital – I watched the ABC News. There Christopher Pyne (for our readers in other parts of the globe: an Australian opposition MP) declared that the Prime Minister’s stance on the gambling reform was “the most ruthless political act since Richard III disposed of his nephews in the Tower of London” (for a clip click here). […]