Culture

Here’s Our Great Leader, Champion Of Traditional Australia, Idly Chomping On A Whole Spring Onion

Types of onion are one of the few things he doesn't discriminate against.

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Gather around, friends. It has been a day of disappointments amidst an age of disillusionment and to many, the governance of this great nation of ours is increasingly cruel and unjust.

You know what might make you feel better?

It certainly won’t restore any faith in our leaders. It definitely won’t do anything tangible in the ongoing fight for marriage equality, or LGBT rights more generally, or any of the other myriad problems you may have with this government. But it may bring a brief, albeit horrified, smile to your face.

It is happening again and sadly, at this point, you know exactly what to do:

After not one but two instances of our fully-grown Prime Minister devouring raw onions like a horse eating apples, the ABC have unearthed further footage of Tony Abbott “enjoying another member of the onion family at a Queensland farm in 2011”.

Apparently types of onion are one of the few things he doesn’t discriminate against.