Just because your party’s having a spot of disintegration doesn’t mean you can’t laugh
Richard Di Natale going the full tease on Twitter, yesterday:
I will be making an important announcement shortly.
Greens senator Nick McKim, who has lost two colleagues in under a week, responding on Twitter:
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE OF THE OZ!!!
Phew! Di Natale follows up with the official document, and a message:
Ecco qui. Non sono Italiano! (Here goes. I’m not Italian!)
Aunty’s toy story. Amanda Meade in The Guardian Australia, yesterday:
The newly formed audio studios division led by Kellie Riordan held a feedback session with staff in which attendees were asked to sit in a ring and select a plastic toy from the centre of the group that most represents how they feel and speak “through” it. Sounds like a direct lift from ABC TV comedy Utopia — or the BBC’s The Thick of It. A spokesman for ABC Radio confirmed: “ABC Radio recently invited staff in Sydney to a feedback session about podcasting. Given some of the staff were not familiar with each other, objects including toys were used as an icebreaker. This is a common training tool to kickstart discussions and is used at other organisations for similar purposes. At no stage was any staff member asked to use an object to provide feedback.”
Looking back. The SBS homepage, yesterday:
How to watch the 2016 Tour de France on SBS.
Looking further back. Pondering Russian revolutionary Alexander Kerensky’s time in Brisbane. The Sydney Morning Herald, July 14:
… at a party held in his honour there, Kerensky amazed his hosts by telling them that he expected to share Trotsky’s fate, believing he was being stalked by assassins. When someone disturbed him at night, he became so distressed that he immediately returned to Clayfield. He later travelled to Melbourne, giving lectures at the University of Melbourne, which were poorly received. Kerensky returned to America later in 1946 where he took up an offer to become a staff member of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University in California.
That’ll be the deja vu. Lateline, on September 22, 2003:
At a party held in his honour, Kerensky amazed his hosts by telling them that he expected to share Trotsky’s fate and imagined he was being stalked by assassins. When someone disturbed him at night, he became so distressed that he immediately returned to Clayfield. His lectures at the University of Melbourne … were not a success. Kerensky returned to America six months later where he took up an offer to become a staff member of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University in California.
Looking ahead on the Nine Network’s Today show, yesterday:
Sylvia Jeffreys: We’re talking about love this morning. Can we just say the three little words to one another this morning, just to set the tone?
Anthony Albanese: No, that’s just not going to happen.
Karl Stefanovic: Do it!
Albanese: That would be a YouTube sensation, I know!
Christopher Pyne: I love Today. Is that what you meant?
Albanese: I love everyone here in the studio.
Pyne: I love Today.
Jeffreys: All right, guys, I appreciate you loving Today.
Albanese: I love Australian Ninja … When are me and Pyne going to get to go on Australian Ninja? We would be sensational as a comedy segment.
Alan Jones on Twitter, yesterday:
A magnificent speech by @AlanTudgeMP on welfare dependency. It poses the question: Why am I entitled to put my hand in your pocket?