The Source: Julie Bishop’s Barbie confession

The former Foreign Minister had a Barbie doll created in her honour but has shared a surprising revelation about the new movie and blockbuster Oppenheimer.

Julie Bishop with the Foreign Minister Barbie created in her honour.

Putting the squeeze on Victoria’s movers, shakers and headline makers.

Former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has revealed that she is yet to see the Barbie movie, even though a Foreign Minister Barbie was created in her honour a couple of years ago.

Bishop, a fan of Barbie since childhood, still has her first Barbie doll – the Jackie Kennedy version.

She says she might catch up with the movie Barbie after she has found time (a combined six hours or so) to watch Oppenheimer and the new Mission Impossible.

Speaking at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Bishop also revealed that the fallout is still flowing after the Andrews government’s Commonwealth Games calamity.

Bishop addressed the National Press Club on Wednesday. Picture: Martin Ollman

As widely reported, the Andrews government contracted the event to be staged in various regional marginal seats – then cancelled the games after someone belatedly stumbled across a calculator and raised the fiscal alarm.

Bishop, the chancellor at Australian National University, said the timing of the cancellation was rather unfortunate, given she was addressing a group of Commonwealth university vice chancellors on the same day.

“And it was doubly unfortunate because the Commonwealth Association of Universities informed me that they had planned their next Commonwealth meeting for Melbourne, for 2026, and that they had arranged a summer school for students across the Commonwealth to be in Melbourne to coincide with the Commonwealth Games,” she said.

“So the disenchantment continues.”

Anti-lockdown activist embarks on grand conspiracy tour

What does a professional protester do when they’ve lost their platform, purpose and possibly the plot?

Monica Smit, the Australian anti-lockdown protester who galvanised an army of Victorian anti-vaxxers, has found new and increasingly unexpected battles to fight, travel the world and hook up with some of the world’s biggest conspiracy theorists.

You may recall Smit encouraging Melburnians to attend her Magistrates’ Court hearing earlier this year over outstanding Covid fines, starting with morning tea at a nearby cafe.

The self-proclaimed “full time activist, freedom fighter” then railed against Monash council’s planned Oakleigh Library drag story time event and incited her followers to protest at a council meeting. Call it a win, if that’s the word, given the event was then cancelled.

Smit then took off to Europe on an extended “pilgrimage” under the banner “We Are Ready” (for what is unclear) and remains there, poised, and posting photos of herself with plates of food.

She has met conspiracy theorists including headline act David Icke at the supposedly family friendly Freedom Music Fest in East Sussex.

British media have since reported children were told that terror atrocities like the 7/7 bombings in London and 9/11 attack in New York were inside jobs by the government.

In good news for the Kennedys, it seems that President John F Kennedy’s killing was faked.

Icke is famous for his claim in the 1990 that he would receive messages from the spirit world.

He announced that he was a “Son of the Godhead” and claimed that there is an inter-dimensional race of reptilian beings, the Archons or Anunnaki, which have hijacked the Earth.

You get the drift.

Icke has also explained how Covid is linked to 5G, and that the pandemic was a cover up for a supposed global world order to, um, end the use of cash payment.

“For twenty years, he tried to warn us … we finally woke up! Thank you David for carrying the beacon alone for so long … ” Smit said of her meeting with Icke this week.

“I know some will say … ‘oh he said he was the son of God once 20 years ago’ or ‘he believes in reptile humans’ … you know what … I DON’T CARE if he did or didn’t.”

Consider yourself warned.

Smitt speaks at an anti-vaccination protest in 2021. Picture: Wayne Taylor

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Sprawling $9.5m Tarneit mansion caught up in builder collapse

You know things are bad in the construction industry when even property developers can’t get their homes built.

Former Wyndham councillor and property developer Intaj Khan’s swish $9.5m mansion in Melbourne’s western suburbs has become a high-profile victim of Mavi Homes Projects’ collapse.

The business went into liquidation earlier this month, with administrators John Hardy and David Hardy appointed.

Mavi had been in the process of building Mr Khan’s 16-bedroom house featuring a 30-seat movie theatre, upon a 40,000sq Tarneit block, with the project dubbed the “In-Taj Mahal’’ by some locals.

However, Mr Khan said construction on the 2867sq m house — which he says will be one of the biggest homes in Victoria upon completion — has been halted until he can find the right builder to start again.

What the mansion will look like when it is finished. Picture: Supplied