(The pollie pedal charity fundraiser is) an opportunity to stop at lots of little towns along the way where people probably never see or don't very often see a federal member of Parliament.
Notes from Wikiquote
Foreign policy -
No one, however smart, however well educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
In politics, what's not reported might as well not have happened.
Even the toughest politicians sometimes wonder whether political life is worth the personal cost.
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