Reference :- The coalition has made yet another mathematical error.

Reference :-   Stepping beyond the boundary of his expertise with numbers , internationally acclaimed Prime Minister , Mr Scott Morrison , has made another blunder with statistics .

Mr  Morrison sir , we don't expect you to have an expert knowledge of all subjects .   You are a politician , not a climate scientist or an epidemiologist or an actual "real " economist  ( marketing doesn't count).  Nor are you an historian , obviously .  And why should a busy man like yourself bother to take an interest in the history of his own nation ?  However , you still looked very foolish when you claimed Australia had never allowed slavery , despite the later apology. 

Young Angus Taylor  sure has made a few blues with numbers , big and small .  He can't even remember the number of times he partied with Naomi Wolff when he was at Oxford university .   ( According to Ms Wolf it was zero. )    You may have got the figure out by about a factor of two when estimating the cost of the Jobseeker allowance , but young Angus still held the gold medal  for lousy estimates with his dodgy figure for the Sydney Council's travel expenses . It was out by a factor of thousands .

 Though it is quite surprising ,  Sky Reply contributing editor Monte ( the motorcyclist )  is quite an algebraist .  He ran a quick calculation to see if your slavery remark placed you ahead of young Angus in the stupendous numerical inaccuracy stakes .

 Like  you , integers and the suchlike are not my strong suit , so please pardon any clumsiness in the following explanation .    Using principals described by the great mathematician Bernard Riemann ,  in an earlier century , Monte has graded the level of your inaccuracy .

 Monte took a rounded figure of 60,000 for the cane cutting Melanesian slaves you forgot about  , and added a very conservative 20,000 for the indentured aborigines and Torres Strait islanders you overlooked . He then added another conservative figure of 10,000 for the aborigines who thought they would get paid and never were , some of whom worked during my lifetime . ( Imagine that Mr Morrison , sir , slavery in Australia in our own lifetimes . )

Of course there is more ,  but those numbers, totalling  90,000 , are all Monte needed .    Young Angus was out by a factor of a few thousand ,with his travel expense figure  but  Monte says if we divide the actual number of slaves by the figure you quoted the sum appears as 90,000 divided by zero.   The result of that calculation is infinity .  So you were wrong by a factor of infinity . This  easily beats young Angus  , so you now hold top position in the stupendous inaccuracy stakes .  And a score of infinity  will be hard to beat , though the coalition has members who could still surprise us .

Personally , I don't much like figures and statistics .  So I don't think it is fair to say you were infinitely inaccurate .

 Infinitely insensitive seems a better description .    

Your comrade , Ken