Gobblygook Champion

WHEN LABOUR and NZ First signed their agreement in 2017 there were only 1,600 words written on seven sparsely covered pages

BY CONTRAST, the current German coalition document runs over 177 pages with 52,000 words – and mind you, German words are much longer on average. If you are not a native German speaker, good luck making sense of terms like ‘Rohstoffsicherungsstrategie’ (Commodity Security Strategy)  ‘Wohnungseigentumsgemeinschaften’ (Condominium Associations) and ‘Gesamtlärmbetrachtung’ (Overall Noise Assessment), since you asked).

THE 2022 Australian parliamentary calendar shows that there are only ten sitting days set down for the next six months.