Thread on how Kevin Rudd may have exaggerated his role in our vaccine stocks ….. the online fantasisms of our embittered former prime ministers
Naturally all the most stupid & vapid people in media believed that Pfizer would deal with the Australian Govt - which operates the lucrative pharmaceutical benefits scheme - not through its local executives but through the intermediary of a former prime minister going mad online
The whole Kevin Rudd / Pfizer miasma struck any remotely sensible person as plainly absurd on reading it & now looks very strange as to how it was rolled out by Laura Tingle etal. The X Files “I want to believe” bar for media on ridiculous stories has been lowered too far now.
Imagine thinking - even for a nano second - that Pfizer with its local office and army of lobbyists in Australia chose instead to deal with the Australian Govt through ….. Kevin Rudd. No one read the Laura Tingle story, stopped, and thought …. “This seems hard to believe”?
I suspect one thing that may confuse Americans in correspondence is Rudd uses the Australian coat of arms on his letterhead - which you or I are not allowed to do as a private citizen (regardless of what office we once held) as the arms belong to the Commonwealth…ex PMs are ‘ex’
In the US, my understanding is former Presidents do get to use some aspect of the American republic’s arms on their letterhead - but for us in the Australian monarchy, that is verboten as a prime minister is merely a first minister and not royalty nor a head of state

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