INHOUSE SCANDAL:

In a classic “conflict of interest” scandal, The Bug’s finance editor Morrie Bezzle has been sacked as Australia’s No1 family netzine’s chief judge of its annual Australian of the Year title.

Only yesterday Mr Bezzle enjoyed the spotlight just outside the Brisbane Convention Centre in South Brisbane as he awarded the 2023 Bug AOTY award to former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

But only overnight, it has come to light that Bezzle and the former member for Warringah on Sydney’s northern beaches had briefly planned a business adventure together to be named First People’s Park, very much like a Jurassic Park tourist adventure in which non-indigenous Australians could safely watch our Aboriginal people live out their lives in the traditional way they had always done for 60,000 years.

It’s understood Bezzle approached Abbott immediately with the tourism idea after the politician during his time in government and as a champion of black causes suggested that a sensible solution to problems facing Australia’s Aborigines was to give them a large track of useless land in the nation’s red centre – a totally fenced off reserve – where they could live their traditional lives free of white man’s diseases and, of course, alcohol.

Bezzle’s simple plan was that tourists would be allowed to enter First Person’s Park in fully air-conditioned comfort and safety in large, specially designed tandem buses equipped to see off spear and nulla-nulla attacks as passengers enjoyed watching the world’s oldest civilisation “living the perfect Dreamtime existence”.

It’s understood Bezzle wrote to Abbott at the time: ”When I first conjured up the project I thought who better to welcome visitors but two of Australia’s greatest Aboriginal talents, Chris Lilley and Kamahl.

“Every tourist who drives past their statues at the entrance will be reminded of just how much we Aussies appreciate the culture of the original inhabitants of what is now our land.”

But the two men fell out with Abbott insisting the tourism concept should be based on the tunnels you see at underwater-world type attractions, meaning the tourists would be much more able to step off open-air light-rail carriages at any time along the way and come virtually face to face with our First Nations people as they enjoyed their ancient nomadic ways.

The Bug‘s acting lawyer Dickie Shearman (below, right) on leave from his legal duties with the Brisbane Bolts in the JDG offseason, said Bezzle’s sacking would not affect the selection of Abbott as The Bug‘s AOTY.

“It’s our firm belief that the size of our judging panel for this incredible annual award meant that this unfortunate non-disclosure of Bezzle’s involvement in a scheme that never went ahead anyway would not have changed the result.

“Bezzle’s tainted vote aside, our AOTY judging panel would clearly still have award the 2023 honour to the mindless, moronic Tony Abbott for his absurd racist, divisive take on the Voice.”

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