The Source: Victorian senator Jana Stewart rides the Taylor Swift bandwagon with terrible effect

Politicians are always quick to jump on a bandwagon but the efforts of one Victorian senator to ride the Taylor Swift wave is particularly awkward.

Senator Jana Stewart’s Tay Tay bandwagoning unravels with eye-rolling puns aplenty.

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

Oh dear. Senator Jana Stewart has leapt on the Tay Tay bandwagon, using Swiftie songs and Eras Tour imagery to hoot about Labor’s arts policies.

It unravels with eye-rolling puns aplenty and, in the words of a new T.Swizzle ode, amounts to Sweet Nothing.

The Victorian senator posted on Insta, with a ‘like’ from Prime Minister Albanese: “We know All Too Well that the arts sector was left with Bad Blood after a decade of neglect under the previous Liberal government.

“That’s why the Albanese Labor Government is investing in our Bejeweled new bodies — Creative Australia, Music Australia and Creative Workplaces.

“Future legislation will also embed a First Nations led body within Creative Australia. I hope you’re …Ready For It.

“Labor’s plan to restore, rebuild and renew our creative Australian stories will leave you Enchanted.”

We’ll leave a Blank Space, dear Source reader, to let you take it all in.

It doesn’t take a Mastermind to interpret this Vigilante Shit as Nothing New, particularly in the cut and thrust of politics.

But toying with Tay Tay poetry, especially as a nation holds it collective refresh button for Swift concert tickets in February, is Treacherous, Holy Ground and Untouchable. Indeed, the Karma bus is never far away.

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Melbourne bar king swaps laneways for llamas

No need for a llama — or, in the case of Melbourne bar tsar Jerome Borazio, maybe there is.

Borazio, the hospo king behind Laneway Festival, Ponyfish Island at Southgate, Ocean Beach Pavilion in Sorrento, Haba in Rye, and Lickety Split and Back Alley Sally’s in Footscray, has reinvented himself as a llama farmer.

Borazio and his partner Amelia relocated to Mornington Peninsula to run a farmyard property with a menagerie that includes 2 camels, 4 llamas, 5 goats, a ram, Shetland pony, racehorses, cows and donkeys.

“It’s an incredible outcome considering I don’t know how to do anything, I’ve never wanted a farm, and now I’m entrenched in the community ten-fold,” Borazio said.

“It’s been very therapeutic. When I say I don’t know how to do anything, I mean it. I’m the most useless person when it comes to fixing anything. We became YouTube farmers, basically.

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d end up on a farm. There was no premeditated idea. But we’ve fallen in love with it.”

Borazio’s other stamps on the city also included venues 1000 Pound Bend, Sister Bella, a Vegas-style wedding chapel Church of the Bang Bang Boogaloo, and St Jerome’s The Hotel, on the rooftop at Melbourne Central.