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Max Gillies & Eddie Perfect 'The Big Con' Banquet Room Friday 10 June Alexander Downer brandished a question tonight: 'Where in the world is Australia?' Thanks to his Jacaranda World Atlas he knows we're in the southern hemisphere. There used to be two hemispheres, but another two were discovered meaning there are four; enough for two worlds. Oh dear, he must have mis-counted. Where is the Third World, then? Welcome to the Centre for Independent Analysis. Tonight a range of guest speakers will get closer to answering Downer's question than his beloved atlas ever could. Between each speaker are video messages from those who couldn't attend, and the wonderfully savage Eddie Perfect performing musical numbers. Alan Jones, Keith Windschuttle, Downer, Tony Soprano and John Howard all grace us with their presence. But nothing compares to Amanda Vanstone. Here on her Amandatory Detention Tour, she stopped singing her anthem Let The Children Come To Me as soon the KFC order arrived. For the remainder of her speech she chomped away and quaffed Villawood Shiraz, before resuming the song. She may be an easy target, but Gillies' rendering of the Immigration Minister was inspired, and insanely funny. He was damn near flawless all night, and with Perfect in tow - particularly new song Stop Being So Damned September Ten - hit nerve after nerve. Gay marriage, immigration, right-wing conservative Christians, left-wing bleeding hearts with slogans but no actual answers and the media were all lined up and skewered. The CIA specialises in the truth, even when it's painful. Tonight it hurt because we laughed so much. And we laughed because it hurt so much.  |
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