at or with.

Edit: just to be clear, when using black humor, you should be indemnified. When the setup was already joking about the tragic event, it's not his fault that he nailed the punchline.

oh, i agree it was funny, but as a politician who actually feeds off the 'stop the boats' stuff, was probably not the best move.

When the setup was already joking about the tragic event, it's not his fault that he nailed the punchline.

Much prefer his response to some sort of slick, politically-correct feigned horror at the question.

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Boring.

oh tony

In other news, people are so bored that they pay attention to everything and hype it so it makes them look like they have an opinion worth hearing.

It's super ultra unbearably lame because his only real intention is likely beating up what was long ago established to be a bullshit political issue with the goal of milking it a little more.

Basically politicians are incapable of being funny. Their attempts at being so are nearly always facepalm-worthy attempts at "clever" political jabs, and whenever I hear one it feels like nails on a chalkboard from somebody who just cannot deliver humour. Their jokes, to clever humour, are as the singing is to talent in this scenario...

Evidently this needs to be posted again.

He seems to have a habit of doing this... wasn't it Tony Abott that, when asked about soldiers dying in Afghanistan/Iraq etc, "shit happens"?
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Nope. He didn't say that. Channel 7 once again grabs a bit of footage, edits it and takes things out of context. He wasn't saying "shit happens" to soldiers dying.

I found tony abbots joke very tactful.