He will never give up on his dream of wrecking the lives of the working class. “[I’m] like the trout”, he confessed in 2009, “always swimming indefatigably upstream”. Many who know him will speculate that, also like the trout, he lives under a lake and eats dragonflies. In May, Pyne had to cancel a visit to Deakin University in Victoria because every time he goes to a university campus, he is immediately met by a crowd of enraged students and staff. If a doctor were unable to enter her hospital because her patients always threw rocks and chased her away, she might be led to question her medical talents. But Pyne retains his troutish self-confidence. “Some people regard me as a bit enigmatic”, he confided to a Fairfax journalist. His capacity to maintain his sense of boyish glee while trashing the ambitions of millions of working class students certainly does give pause for thought. Who is this trout, and how was he spawned?
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 06:01:02 +0000
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