Pinocchio and the growing nose

November 13, 2025

I don’t know if others have noticed that every time Mike Burgess appears in public, which is a rapidly growing and unpleasant phenomenon, his nose appears to be getting bigger. Like his puppet master Scott Morrison, his propensity for calumny, exaggeration and outright fabrication of threats that only ASIO can discover and eliminate is rampant.

He can of course get away with it as the leader of an organisation that has no oversight of the truth or otherwise of what it says. He regularly fails to produce a jot of evidence for his claims that would stand any chance in a court of law. That has led to allegations by him and the removal of people from our country without any of the supposed evidence that he allegedly has being subjected to testing in a court of law.

The excuse for not doing so is a get out of jail free card for Burgess. He simply claims national security to avoid producing anything substantive. I bet our politicians envy him his capacity to make serious allegations without anyone ever being able to test them!