Michael Costa Meets His Match In A Ten-Year-Old Girl

I can’t work out if I find this article hilarious or sad. I think I find it hilarious. After all, there’s nothing more pleasant to learn on a Friday than a politician has been put in his place by a feisty young slip of a lass standing up for the rights of her daddy in front of a bunch of burly Wollongong firefighters.

When Mr Costa insisted that NSW firefighters were the highest paid in the country, Mr Sullivan’s daughter, Cate, stepped forward. “Excuse me, sir,” she said. “I’m only 10 years old and even I know that is a lie.”

Mr Sullivan said Mr Costa then told his daughter: “That was a good line your daddy taught you.”

Zing! Nice move, Costa.

But wait, he was misheard!

Mr Costa’s spokesman, Brad Schmitt, denies Mr Costa sneered at the girl, saying the Treasurer merely said that he too had a daughter. “He explained that he has a three-year-old daughter and the reason for the [wages] policy was because we want to provide schools.”

Well, you can see how everyone may have misheard the incredibly similar sentence “That was a good line your daddy taught you” with “I have a three-year-old daughter and the reason for the policy is because we want to provide schools”. Lip readers would be confused between the two strangely identical sentiments, I’d wager.

WIN Television footage, however, captured Mr Costa using the phrase “that’s a good line”.

FAIL COSTA. TEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL “FTW” AS THEY SAY ON THE INTERWEBS.

Someone send that girl a Billy Bragg album as a reward, quick sticks.