Pollies taking advantage - quelle surprise!

Now I can understand the Federal Parliament taking one day away from ordinary business to offer condolences and show support for the Victorian bushfire victims.
I can almost understand Question Time being abandoned by both houses two days in a row.
But not for the entire week.
No real Question Time scrutiny of the Nation Building and Jobs Plan before it passed through Parliament and now I read that the Rudd Government is using the bushfires as an excuse for not handing down its "report card on the government's efforts to close the gap between black and white living standards this week as promised".
Kev, voters can feel the rough end of the pineapple when it's shoved towards them.
They recognise political skyving when they see it.
After all, most of them lived in Australia throughout the Howard years.