Amanda Vanstone: The Graphic Novel

I'm salivating at the thought of this - Amanda Vanstone rushes John Howard with an HB pencil and sticks him in the eyeball! her words! Even though it's a hypothetical, the fact that she thought it, then went to the trouble of telling John Howard about it, gives me hope that one day it will happen.

Senator Vanstone told her audience of about 100 Rotarians:

"Has it ever occurred to you that you just smash your wine glass and jump at someone, grab the top of their head and put it in their carotid artery and ask anything? And believe me, you will have their attention. I think of this every time I see more money for the security agencies."

The Immigration Minister also told of a grisly conversation with Mr Howard during a discussion on increased spending on national security. Senator Vanstone said: "I asked him if I was able to get on a plane with an HB pencil, which you are able to, and I further asked him if I went down and came and grabbed him by the front of the head and stabbed the HB pencil into your eyeball and wiggled it around down to your brain area, do you think you'd be focusing? He's thinking, she's gone mad again..."

"If the day has come when a minister can't say what every other Australian says and that is that plastic knives drive us crazy, I think we're in desperate straits," the minister told commercial radio on Monday.