News that a former American basketballer - better known for online gambling advertisements than for Indigenous affairs - was being used to promote the PM’s “yes” campaign only served to diminish it.
But absent any of those things, the NBA star’s appearance at the Prime Minister’s press conference on Saturday only served to make Anthony Albanese look very, very small.
Mr Albanese’s face lit up with joy. Maybe because he was meeting Shaquille O’Neal. Maybe because the colossus had chosen to shake only his hand, rather than his torso. It took a moment for the starstruck PM to compose himself. Standing up straight, he attempted to explain what had just happened. Okay, that’s not exactly the way Mr Albanese said it. But at least now you’re starting to understand what the government believes it’s going to take to educate young Australians on the need for constitutional change.
And if it works, who knows, perhaps Joe Biden will invite Andrew Gaze to lecture Americans about giving up the Second Amendment. But I digress.
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