New Feature: The Quarterly's Hypocrisy Detector.

Here at the Quarterly one thing we can't stand is hypocrisy, so we got our technicians down in the lab to get work on a Hypocrisy Detector and after slaving away they have delivered the machine, and just in the nick of time too. You see the SMH decided to give Julie Bishop a run in their National Times section, which is sure to contain at least a smidgen of hypocrisy.

So now we've got the Detector, let's get it fired up and run Ms Bishop's article through it.



First Input: "The Rudd Government has engaged in a Machiavellian pattern of calculated deception with regard to issues involving the massive increase in the number of asylum seekers arriving by boat since it weakened Australia's border protection laws in August 2008."

Result: The hypocrisy level in this statement from Ms Bishop has reached SHEER, mainly because she seems to have forgotten this. 

Second Input: Our Second Input is actually an entire article from Peter Costello.

Results: Mr Costello's article is also deemed to have reached SHEER, given the fact that he is writing an article about Malcolm Turnbull leaving politics as an "under achiever," given the fact that Mr Turnbull achieved something Mr Costello never could, being Leader of the Opposition.

Wow, after all that hypocrisy it's lucky our Detector is made of sterner stuff than some similar devices.