Obama and the royal wedding
WITH the bride just about in sight, we were almost out of time. Then a coiffed QC saved the day.
Cutandpaste
Try standing on your head and squinting
GUY Rundle is on his high horse again, but he may just have the saddle pointing the wrong way.
How to go from boom to not-so-boom
IT’S gonna be great for the mining sector. It’s gonna be wonderful! (Unless you compare it with last time.)
No more Mr Nice Guy
IT’S a case of Labor temporary visas good, Coalition temporary protection visas bad (any similarities to Howard or Ruddock are coincidental.)
I’d simply say ‘Stop the votes’
BUT then, it might appeal to the masses. Pox populi, or why Elizabeth Farrelly thinks democracy mustn’t be left in the hands of the people.
Have mercy on our souls, Premier Baillieu
PLEASE don’t ever sack Simon Overland; life would be terribly dull without Cut & Paste’s favourite police commissioner.
Murray flowing, but Swanee has dried up
WHERE’S the boom when you need it for a federal budget?
You rule budget cuts in, budget cuts out
THE PM takes advice from our columnist about how to get the most out of the fiscal speculation season.
Guns and nutters: there’s no shortage of the latter
OVER at Fairfax, columnist Peter Hartcher does his best to drum up a self-fulfilling prophecy
At least Oakeshott’s consistent
JULIA Gillard enlists an ally on ABC Radio National on Thursday.
They all know what you’ve said, PM Gillard
WHEN Julia Gillard recalls her pre-election pledge, why does she leave out the best bits?
Standing up for the rhetorically retarded
A FORMER columnist for The Age shows that being born without a civil tongue is no handicap.
How their ABC whites out black support
SHADES of grey were missing in Aunty’s report about a complex issue.
Tim Flannery’s mega-idea
Seems like natural climate change, but not mankind, has killed off the mega-beasties.
I can feel a budget coming on
BUT when the going gets really tough, the tough stop talking to each even over dinner
The Australian as heart of the nation?
The Australian on Thursday:
On ya, Robbo. You’re talking our language.
EXCEPT the stuff about refugee hugging. NSW Labor’s new leader – a man of the people or an inner city Green activist? You be the judge.
Discussions in cabinet are confidential
KEVIN Rudd shares a few secrets with a national television audience.
Ignore the man behind the curtain, we are the Oz
WHO do you blame when things are going badly for your side of politics? Why, The Australian
Beat your Greens, PM, then have your just deserts
IF you thought Bob Brown was angry, you should have heard Radio National’s Fran Kelly
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