R O S S I.....

I moved. Now live in Newcastle. Well, just beside wet and rainy Lake
Macquarie.

 

Ahhh well you've moved into the state of NSW now then.

JL
(Given NSW stands for Newcastle Sydney and Wollongong AFAICT)

 

It may be apocryphal. A google search gives very little support to my
thinking it was actual. A wikipedia reference attributes the retort to
Fred Daly (ALP) with the Country Party Member unspecified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2007_December_10

There's quite a few references to it being Doug Anthony making the
statement including

http://www.geekculture.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=13;t=001345;p=
http://mybrain.ej.am/rootsite/lyrics/countrymember.html
http://f2.org/humour/quotes/politics.html

Which attributes the retort to Gough (which is the version I vaguely
recalled as being "correct")

And hundreds with neither party specified

Hardly conclusive IOW.

However there also seems to be a bit of a history of the same phrase in
the UK as well including this

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/cont...KarlMinns&itemid=NOED12 Sep 2007 11:29:54:813

So I'm guessing I was too kind to the witticism of our pollies...

JL

 

Yep. I am now a member. So I'm thinking of joining a sex club, you know,
a members only one.

 

[doffs hat]
I'm in awe of your researching!