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September 7, 2013 at 12:52pm
Anglu Farrugia is on an “official visit” – code for getting the state to foot the bill – to Australia, where he had what looks, at least from this photograph, to be VERY high-level, important and above all, essential meetings.
As going by this photograph, too, the Maltese can spend 40 years in Australia and still end up as well-turned-out and brilliantly groomed as their siblings and cousins in Malta, wearing exactly the same kind of clothes in the same kind of way. Amazing, really – just astonishing.
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Yes polling day is the right time for an official visit to a country. The probability is that he’ll be present when Labour concedes victory to the Conservatives.
You can take the man out of the village. but you can’t take the village out of the man, even 40 years down the line.
So true, I live in Sydney but very far away from the Maltese. A lot of them are like the Labour marmalja, no different.
Interesting. He wore picnic-gear for the Commonwealth meeting in South Africa and a dark suit and sober tie to meet the kumitat tar-rahlin Maltin in Sydney, whereas they haven’t made the slightest effort to dress well out of respect for him.
Anglu haqqu jiehu xi haga miskin. Twarrab mil-partit b’mod viljakk. Pero Joseph weghdu li jista jixxala sew meta w kif jrid, basta li jiftah halqu mill-inqas, ma jsawwatz nies, u ma johlomx bil partit aktar.
How lovely. Yokel-turned-Speaker meets yokel-emigrants-stayed-yokels.
I’m beginning to think Lowell was right after all. It really is the genes.
The state should only pay for overseas visits by its representatives when the purpose is to have talks with representatives of the state that they are visiting. Anything else is a junket.
It is a high level meeting. Can’t you see that there are two children present – just like there are at high-level meetings in Malta?
That’s an awfully long way for the Speaker to travel, only to find that the Parliament of Australia was prorogued on August 5.
Is he going to hang around Sydney and Canberra until the new Parliament reconvenes and elects his counterpart?
Whoever planned this official visit to coincide with the election?
Is this sheer incompetence, or was there a failed hidden agenda behind it?
The (Malta) Labour Party seems to have a fixation that they have a role to play in Australian elections.
No, Evarist. It’s the typical Maltese syndrome of false self-importance.
Many think the world needs Malta. When a British scientist makes some ground-breaking discovery, it’s very rarely splashed all over the media.
Industry-related media yes, but never on The Times or The Guardian. But a Maltese scientist is paraded all over the media ghax ara kemm ahna tajbin avolja zaghar.
It-tutor ra li hu habrieki u hajjru jkompli l-Masters, gotbless.
They don’t have a law on “indhil barrani” in Australia.
Actually, they do.
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/invasive/ferals/cane-toads.html
Indeed, Anglu Farrugia might easily be mistaken for one. So let us all tread carefully, Ciccio. You’ve seen Mad Max. These people don’t mess about.
Official visit? Can someone tell us what the reason behind this visit is? And why send the speaker of all people?
We’ll soon have him seated on a camel for a nice holiday pic. No elephants here, I’m afraid.
They are really milking the cow dry, aren’t they. All they have done till now is travel and promote themselves as much as possible.
The prime minister’s wife spoke the unadulterated truth when she said that they intend to make the best of these five years.
And poor Manuel Mallia is borrowing his friend’s car to try and save the country some money.
It aches to see, yet again, the same same ritual of the usual “erba qtates” of MLP supporters from the 1950s attending these meetings in a hideous room.
The lackey Lorry Dimech, a regular contributor to It-Torca, is next to Anglu l-ispijker.
Why isn’t our new ambassador, the ex-embassy driver and MLP representative for these last 25 years, in the picture too?
Maybe he was busy following the crushing defeat of the Australian Labour Party and the race to the bottom of the Australian politicians particularly when it comes to immigration pushbacks. Both Rudd and Abbot are shaming Australia.
God knows what utter garbage Anglu talked about to clarify on his plans of strengthening democracy in Malta under the great leadership of his Brutus Muscat.
Do speakers usually go on official visits abroad and meet ambassadors? Or am I just noticing this now? Did previous speakers keep such appointments? Do we get visits from other countries’ speakers?
I am aware of the code you mention, but how does he get away with it? The Maltese speaker (unless I’m mistaken) is neither a politician nor a diplomat.
The motto remains “AHLEB GUS”
Speakers of parliament go on official visits abroad in connection with official contacts with their counterparts. Since parliament was dissolved in Australia at the time of this visit I do not see how Farrugia’s visit could ever be described as official.
When Forace, the MLP’s representative in Australia was also Malta’s High Commissioner there, he urged the Maltese community to vote for the Australian Labour Party, which, in fact, lost the election.
Malta’s bilateral relations with Australia suffered as a result. There was even the danger that its High Commission in Malta would close down. Fenech Adami’s administration had to work hard to repair the damage. Forace was replaced by a career diplomat.
Now the (Malta) Labour Party is going back to its old policies. It has appointed its representative as High Commissioner, and Malta’s Speaker of Parliament was at hand to meet officially his victorious counterpart.
But Labour lost the election. What’s next?
What next?
Obvious, isn’t it.
A trip to Australia by the Commander in Chief himself. With wife and children in tow, of course. (Maa, attakk feroci u personali fuq il-Prim).
Usual story.
1. A one-hour delay for Emirates on each of its flights to and from Australia.
2. Problems with the Australian customs because they are carrying Maltese hobza, pastizzi, Twistees and gbejniet.
3. Reno Bugeja and Norma Saliba from the PBS following Muscat all the way there to report on the two-minutes meeting with Tony Abbott in a corridor leading to the toilets somewhere in Canberra.
4. A series of visits to the Kumitati Laburisti tal-Awstralja.
5. Lots of pictures to be uploaded on Facebook (You know, like “Joseph mal-familja Borg minn Burmarrad fl-Awstralja”).
6. Propaganda on the Labour media: Joseph Muscat pays visit to Maltese migrants in Australia.
Ooops, what was that, Maltese MIGRANTS in Australia?
‘EU did not understand PM’s migration message’
After deciphering the diplomatic parlance, I take this to mean that “Labour government doesn’t know if it’s coming or going on its push-back policy.”
Read the stupid comments beneath this report.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130908/local/-EU-did-not-understand-PM-s-migration-message-.485211
Insomma, join the parliament and see the world.