Top_Cat thanks for posting that stellar link!
A good website is: Paul Keating Insult Archive -
http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/
Paul did come up with some classic insults in parliament
Here are a few samples:
On Wilson "Iron Bar" Tuckey (Liberal politician):
"...You stupid foul-mouthed grub."
"Shut up! Sit down and shut up, you pig!"
"You boxhead you wouldn't know. You are flat out counting past ten."
On Former Leader of the Opposition, John Hewson:
(His performance) is like being flogged with a warm lettuce.
He always turns around when I drop one on him. He can't psychologically handle it.
I was implying that the Honorable Member for Wentworth was like a lizard on a rock - alive, but looking dead.
Yesterday, on a personal matter against me, we had old dozy over there, the Honourable Member for Wentworth.
I have a psychological hold over Hewson...He's like a stone statue in the cemetery.
I'm not going to be fairy flossed away as my opposite number, John Hewson, is prepared to be fairy flossed away by some spaced out, vacous ad agency.
I'd put him in the same class as the rest of them: mediocrity.
This is the sort of little-boy, stamp your foot stuff which comes from a financial yuppie when you shoe him into parliament.
Hewson's only made the grade on paid advertisements. He's put me under no pressure at all. The only one who's put us under pressure on any issue is Peacock. He's an old cynic and he goes for the issues. Hewson's on television a lot but he hasn't put me under any pressure.
[Edited on 6/14/02 by anthonysw]
