Shake the yoke of inauspicious stars, someone has had a crack at the PM with an egg at a Country Women’s Association event in Albury.

A barbarous act by a crazed radical. Yet again the humble egg, that treasure box without hinges, was an unwitting player in dastardly jackbootery. Woe betide us. The nation’s fate is paved in yolk and blood.

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