"Cormann's Shorten" tote

Agency of communication is an essential aspect of political success: belief in meaning; conviction in delivery.

Perhaps no Senator had greater delivery than Mathias Cormann when he said, in his dulcet belgian tones “how good is Australia?”, you thought “yeah, Australia is good!" 
When he said “Scotty, I’m quitting to fly across the world and impress the voting members of the OECD and your going to pay for it”, Scotty thought “yeah, I will!”
If Mathias Cormann said to you, “I’m going to need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle”, you’d think “Fair enough!”

And when he said the then opposition Bill Shorten was an "economic girlie-man", as if just by speaking the words, it was decided Bill Shorten was an "economic girlie-man".