Mr Howard will also be asked to captain the Parliamentary team in the one day cricket match to be held in the dish.
Mr Cowpat said that though it could be said that the invitation was a little premature, not only was Mr Howard the most intelligent and handsome member of the Parliamentary Liberal Party but is the most clean living and has a superb level of fitness.
This means that now he has indefinitely postponed his retirement he would certainly be alive and well in 2069 and no doubt still be Prime Minister in 2069.
While in the unlikely event that he met with a tragic accident before that date, there was nothing in the Australian Constitution that specified that an Australian Prime Minister need actually be alive at all times while holding office.
The PM could then be deep frozen, he said, and an associated computer programmed with appropriate responses.
“I have no recollection of that”, and “I have in the past made my position on that quite clear so there is nothing further to add” would, Mr Cowpat said, be a suitable answer to most questions the PM has to respond to.
Additionally, he said, the Deputy Prime Minister Mr Costello could be placed in a cryogenic chamber and kept in reserve as an emergency understudy should the PM be abducted by aliens and not promptly returned, in the hope that one day it might prove possible to revive him. This would likely represent his best chance of becoming Prime Minister anyway.
On a cautionary note, Mr Cowpat warned Australians to be wary of his political opponents.
He said that it was reliably rumoured that the Left Right Left wing of the Australian Labor Party had a secret plan to extinguish the Sun if elected at the next Federal poll.
The Australian National University was to be charged with devising a means of turning off the Sun in a more user friendly manner than that proposed by the Awfully Far Out Left, i.e. inducing the Sun to go Supernova.
The Left Right Left apparently considered that the fact that the Sun was a fusion reactor was in conflict with their anti-nuclear position, a position which they considered was thoroughly vindicated by the many cases of skin cancer and sunburn, which the Sun was so commonly responsible for.
They planned to replace solar radiation with geothermal power, wind-generated power from wind-mills placed adjacent to Federal and all State Parliament houses, council chambers etc, and grow food hydroponically under sun-like lamps.
Mr Cowpat said that though the National Party itself was as yet not entirely convinced as to the exact nature of the Sun, the (alleged) Labor Party plans sounded highly irresponsible and that they would be vigorously opposed with the combined intellectual skills of the members of the Liberal / National coalition.
“The National Party loves a sunburnt country”, he said.