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Shit In Gelato: Respect For Australia In Free Fall

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Call me old-fashioned, call me anything you like but Australia’s international reputation IS important. So important that currently, we have a PM who spends more than half our GDP living overseas, constantly spreading the message of an urbane, sophisticated Federation.

So, how could it come to this?

Pile of Gelato (flickr credit: Gio JL)

Pile of Gelato (flickr credit: Gio JL)

Before someone put shit in someone’s chocolate gelato served up in the bistro of Sydney’s iconic Coogee Bay Hotel, Australia had only been mentioned once this year in the international media. That was when the first of the Steve Irwin impersonators started do live crocodile taming acts in pubs around outback Queensland.

But now, thanks to the the most unspeakable case of shit sabotage ever reported anywhere, we’re hitting the international headlines like never before. I’m NOT proud and neither should you be….

Click here for:  Trusted Sample Of International Shit-In-Gelato Coverage.

So….Where to now?  (more…)