MHR Michael Danby [Labour, Vic] really hit the hight spots last year when he slammed a play ["Stuff Happens"] without even having seen it - on the basis that he had read a review about it.
Not content with that "critique", in October last year he wrote to the Australian Jewish News slamming a book being written by Antony Loewenstein and advising MUP not to publish it and members of the Jewish community not to read it. Trouble is, the book won't be published until July or August this year - and no one has read the book! Perhaps not surprisingly, the prescience of Danby draw criticism in the media both in Australia and the UK and USA.
It would appear almost beyond question that MHR Danby should be directing whatever energies he has to attending to his constituants and the material he distributes to them. Todays Australian newspaper [no link available] publishes the following:
"Michael Danby, federal member for Melbourne Ports, had a brainwave of sorts three years ago; he sent his constituents fridge-magnet calendars, highlighting public and religious holidays as well as school terms. Trouble was, he listed April 24 as Anzac Day. This year he got Anzac Day correct, but the good news ends there. He apparently still doesn't know what day of the week it is. Danby shaded in the NSW school holidays - of little use to local Victorians who include Simon Crean and Greg Combet. Labour Day is shaded in as being on March 20 - it's the 13th. He has listed most of the Christian and Jewish holidays, but only one Greek, and not a mention of any Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim significant dates. Oh yes, and there were a couple of misplaced suburbs in the map of the electorate. But the sin to end all sins was Danby's omission to register the biggest religious/public holiday of all - the Melbourne Cup on November 7."
MHR Danby might care to reflect on the old adage of people in glass houses......!!!!
Not content with that "critique", in October last year he wrote to the Australian Jewish News slamming a book being written by Antony Loewenstein and advising MUP not to publish it and members of the Jewish community not to read it. Trouble is, the book won't be published until July or August this year - and no one has read the book! Perhaps not surprisingly, the prescience of Danby draw criticism in the media both in Australia and the UK and USA.
It would appear almost beyond question that MHR Danby should be directing whatever energies he has to attending to his constituants and the material he distributes to them. Todays Australian newspaper [no link available] publishes the following:
"Michael Danby, federal member for Melbourne Ports, had a brainwave of sorts three years ago; he sent his constituents fridge-magnet calendars, highlighting public and religious holidays as well as school terms. Trouble was, he listed April 24 as Anzac Day. This year he got Anzac Day correct, but the good news ends there. He apparently still doesn't know what day of the week it is. Danby shaded in the NSW school holidays - of little use to local Victorians who include Simon Crean and Greg Combet. Labour Day is shaded in as being on March 20 - it's the 13th. He has listed most of the Christian and Jewish holidays, but only one Greek, and not a mention of any Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim significant dates. Oh yes, and there were a couple of misplaced suburbs in the map of the electorate. But the sin to end all sins was Danby's omission to register the biggest religious/public holiday of all - the Melbourne Cup on November 7."
MHR Danby might care to reflect on the old adage of people in glass houses......!!!!
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