blog In their day jobs, Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy and Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Digital Innovation and Startups Ed Husic are supposed to be at each’s necks, as they cover the same innovation portfolio from opposing sides of politics.
But in practice the pair — two of the most tech-focused MPs in Federal Parliament — appear to be sometimes thinking along the same lines. Delimiter could not help but admire their sterling efforts over Christmas as both Roy and Husic grew what we can only describe as highly masculine lengths of facial hair.
Then there was this touching moment on Twitter:
@edhusicMP @morris_kate @philipdalidakis as long as we are just keeping this between us- @edhusicMP isn't a bad bloke.
— Wyatt Roy MP (@Wyatt_MP) January 14, 2016
Sadly, Greens Communications Spokesperson Scott Ludlam hasn’t followed the lead set by Roy and Husic, although the Greens’ self-described “scruffy economist” Peter Whish-Wilson, who would have some overlap in the innovation portfolio, usually supplies the Senate with a great deal of leadership in handlebar moustaches:
And Greens MP Adam Bandt, who has often handled the innovation and industry portfolios for the Greens, also sported a corker last year which we could not help but admire, although it appears to have since been shaved off:
One can’t help but suspect that this display of bipartisanship from Husic and Roy can’t last forever, as we head to a Federal Election, but Delimiter would like to put on the record our opinion that there need to be more beards in Federal Parliament.
I’d like to coin the phrase: “…political manscape…”
Very nice :)
Wyatt Roy actually looks like an adult with that beard, it rather suits him!
If he knows whats good for him he will keep growing (and trimming) that until he has extensive crows feet. you are dead on. Makes him look like he is pushing 30 rather than deciding whether to do his HSC ( No offence Wyatt! )
again, no offence to Husic (Im a huge fan of Ed’s actually) or Wyatt but these are not “highly masculine lengths of facial hair” yet. Bandt has been in that territory in between tidy ups but these lads will need another 3 weeks or so.
Sam Dastyari, are you paying attention mate ? join the club and get that corporate tax evasion investigation cooking again
Update: Wyatt’s now seeing sledging from the Victorian quarter:
“Delimiter could not help but admire their sterling efforts over Christmas as both Roy and Husic grew what we can only describe as highly masculine lengths of facial hair. ”
Sterling efforts? Highly masculine lengths of facial hair? All I see in the photos above is bum fluff. A proper beard is one you can lose things in. Like mine.
Now, where did I put my dinner? B-)
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