Peter Garrett - former Midnight Oil frontman, celebrity baldie and now Aussie environment minister - has failed to persuade his counterparts across the Aussie states' to ditch plastic bags and countenance an all-out ban of the disposable plastic irritants.
Cue much tuttting and rolling of eyes. Go on - try it yourself. Feels good, right?
Instead of…
Do you come from a land Down Under? Can you hear, can you hear the thunder? If the answer is yes, you're either in the Aussie band Men at Work or you're a politician caught up in the South Australian stampede to back the free plastic bags ban.
(You may remember that China did a similar…