The Australian 29 October 2010
The great economist Joe Hockey once said “give me a lever long enough and strong enough, and I’ll stick it so far up the banks that the experience ceases to be pleasurable for them”. Now we all know that this is rank populism, not because we wouldn’t all love to see a Bank CEO Kebab, but because we all know that if Joe ever does become treasurer, he’ll fall back on Wayne’s plan of being Very Cross when the banks do whatever they bloody well like, because, well, they can.
The Australian 4 November 2010