Political Apology Generator With an eye on the horizon for the gaffes and Cliveisms to come, it only seems fair to create an Apology Generator that can spit out apologies, retractions, and sincere statements of regret on cue, writes Josh Aitken.

Let's face it. If you want to be a politician in these modern, ice-bucket challenge drenched times, you have to be good at apologising. With the second-by-second churn of the 24-hour news cycle and every word and even your metadata now recorded, there's no escaping the scrutiny, scandal or even a storm in a recyclable, double insulated takeaway coffee cup.

In between guaranteed colossal bureaucratic stuff ups and self-detonating ministerial outbursts on cheery subjects like abortion, race, gender, sexuality and budget-caused skin cancer, there's barely enough time to announce yet another white paper, military titles border security emergency or global travel junket.

read on - the story is about Australian politicians but you can easily substitute the names of your favourite politicians/parties.

Of course, if you want to read up on our particular (peculiar?) brand of loony politicians, you can just google their names!

Clive Palmer - a self-made billioniare who decided to make his own political party the Palmer United Party aka PUP, scatters life-size dinosaurs models around the place, & plans to build a replica of the Titanic (ie. a gift to political cartoonists)