PM NOT THE PUPPET-MASTER PORTRAYED IN LETTER
Dr Ross Hudson seems to think that world leaders direct their own media photoshoots ("Bible influence evident on PM", The Daily Advertiser, December 23).
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison "brings Jenny out ... when he thinks it might be useful" or "strategically" arrays a bevy of secretarial flesh in the background.
All this, naturally, demonstrates his Pentecostal faith which holds women in subservience. Good grief.
The facts are quite the opposite: Presidents, PMs, even Premiers and business nabobs travel with a small circus of PAs, PR advisers, and professional style-mongers who each put their two-bobs-worth into every photogenic tableau during a public appearance by the high and mighty.
And that's not to mention the media scrum itself who snap and film away according to their own whimsy regardless of any restricted visual angle to which they've been "directed" to conform by Cecil B de Morrison.
I remember, from some decades ago, a photo of Bob Hawke haranguing an audience with two microphones on goosenecks in front of him.
The mic ends had those bulbous black cloth dampeners attached and the camera angle caught these directly in front of his eyes so that he looked like Louie the fly on steroids - I'm not sure why any PM would "strategically" mastermind such an image.
Your letter writer opines that Mr Morrison's sins against women might be put down to his Biblically literalist church and that "he just may not know any better"; but it is Dr Hudson who doesn't "know any better" about how random political photoshoots can be.
Conspiracists seem to think that villains get great delight from constantly flaunting their nefarious plans in secret symbolism rather than, as any decent wannabe puppet-master does, conceal them.
Robert T Walker, Wagga
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However, you missed a few bad roads like a particular intersection between Uranquity and Collingullie - they would not know where it is.
The sooner Lockhart council takes over these rural areas the better as they care about small villages and their roads.
I wish the new councillors all the best in their endeavours to make this a better place.
They may take Rod Kendall and co for a drive outside of Wagga and look at our roads, especially the Collingullie to The Rock.
Once again, I wish them good luck.
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