We all know, without it being said, what happened with Callinan

“Do they think we are stupid?”

This was the verdict of an entirely impromptu ‘vox pop’ carried out amongst ordinary people by a friend at a whist party in the aftermath of the Callinan ‘catalytic’ cull.

If anything were needed to illustrate the yawning gap between our coalition government and the ordinary citizen, this is finally it. For us, outside and looking in through the windows of Versailles, it’s about the failure of anybody sitting around the Cabinet table — within the bunker — to do the Hans Christian Andersen little boy trick.