Bob Katter of Katter's Australian Party after learning about his party's failed court bid to change the ballot papers for the March 24 Queensland election. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen Source: The Australian THERE'S a fabulous rap song by Malo Luafutu, known as Scribe, released 10 years ago called Not Many which asks the pertinent question: How many dudes you know roll like this?
The answer, of course, is "not many, if any".
This came to mind when wondering if Bob Katter ever had any chance of winning his case in Queensland Supreme Court to fix up a mistake his Australian Party made late last year when registering its name with the Electoral Commission.
Chances? Not many, if any.
The Court of Appeal in Brisbane yesterday rejected an application by Katter's Australian Party to have 7.1 million ballot papers destroyed, and reprinted with its full name.
The party had argued the decision to use its abbreviated name The Australian Party could confuse people and cost it votes.
It is quite likely there was an honest mistake made last year but asking a court to fix your mistakes was never going to work.
Katter's opportunistic - and expensive - court bid was all about creating the conditions for a big opening to the room called victimhood.
Katter and his party almost certainly knew they were on a hiding to nothing in the court but it would then allow them to blame the system for any political problems or setbacks they might encounter.
With the glint of conspiracy in his eyes, Katter declared political forces were working to entrench the two-party system.
"They are determined that you only have a Woolworths and Coles in politics," Katter said.
"The system has determined that that will happen. I tell you, you're making a mistake because the people in this country have always ended up winning, in the end."
He likened the election to a race, where the major parties were at the starting line, and the KAP was 20m behind.
Bob Katter's party would benefit from having his name on the ballot papers instead of just The Australian Party, but this has been a publicity godsend for the federal MP and his compadres.
Just as Pauline Hanson was able to blame the system after she was convicted and jailed for what was an electoral parking ticket, Katter will use this to expand his stump speech about how the system is rigged.
If, on March 24, Katter and his merry men and women do worse than they are boasting - he reckons he will form government, which just might be a stretch - he can now claim it wasn't the party's fault. It was the system rigged against the little guy.
Just listen to his words when he was speaking from his new spiritual home of Kingaroy - the peanut capital and centre of all things Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
"Just remember, if we were the underdogs before, we're hugely the underdogs now," Katter said.
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