The peace plan was representative of Benedict's inability to appear as a neutral broker of peace

If representation and recruitment is an objective, self-styled mavericks like Kelly and his Queensland sidekick George Christensen have some utility. This duo operates like an extended wink and a nudge; they tell voters the Coalition is a broad enough church to be a home for fringe views.

[…] the atmosphere was now animated with the efficient principle of vegetative life; the arbustive hills, gay lawns, and green meadows […]

According to the Zohar it was first recited on Shabbat during the Tannaitic period (10-220 C.E.).