When speaking of Johnson, a “banana bender,” the term for all Queenslanders. It is said they spend their time putting the bends into bananas.

The speculation follows much earlier talk that the “Taliban Unions” (as the extreme left unions are affectionately known by more moderate industrial organisations) would be looking to behead Boydy at the earliest possible opportunity.

Unfortunately none of the reports I’ve seen have explained the chair-sniffing incident, which just has to have a story behind it. Buswell has, however, been accused of grabbing the testicles of MP Murray Cowper, which is apparently known in slang as “squirrel-gripping.” I had never heard this expression before but now I’m left with the question of whether “playing soccer with a quokka’” does not in fact have anything to do with football. I really don’t want to know what was meant.

A remorseful Barry Hall apologised to the game for the brutal punch that earned him a seven-match suspension last night.…The burly Swans” forward told the AFL Tribunal he was “sorry” and “very remorseful” for his crude king-hit in the first quarter on Saturday night.

So another grant from the NSW Premier’s Department and the council in 2003 financed at the back of the estate a “rage cage”—a small cement court with a basketball ring and soccer goal. Parents have taken to calling it a “rape cage,” Porter says, because it backs onto bush and a dirt road and is out of sight of their eyes. “There were a couple of incidents down there involving young girls,” he says.