tutti frutti

Moved right along from animals, now the Coalition's getting fruity:

"They are watermelons many of them - green on the outside and very, very, very red on the inside."
John Anderson, Nationals leader, on the Greens.

I'm counting on something juicy from Sedgwick shortly.

update: Oh, I see Greens leader Bob Brown has already "hit back":

Senator Brown said the Greens were more like avocados - green on the inside and outside.

And they kind of look like...in fact the word "avocado" comes from the Mexican word for...but maybe we won't go there.