by Malcolm King
There is no doubt that Senator Xenophon has the South Australia public and media in his pocket. More than 150,000 voters and 50 journalists whose contact books automatically open to the letter X can’t be wrong, can they?
“My political philosophy is summed up by the myth of Sisyphus, the story of this poor bastard that was condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a hill. And I feel like I’m rolling that boulder up to the top of the hill, never getting to the crest. But I’ll still keep going,” he said recently in the media.
Unfortunately Senator Xenophon will have to keep rolling that stone a little longer as the Greens have taken the balance of power in the Senate. It’s a kick in the guts for South Australians who placed so much faith in the Anti-Pokies campaigner.
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