Treasurer two-times Ray Hadley with Melbourne lefty Jon Faine

The Ray Hadley Morning Show has a new theme tune. Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac, August 31, 1987:

Tell me lies / Tell me sweet little lies / (Tell me lies. Tell me, tell me lies)

Because Ray isn’t talking to Scott Morrison. Sydney’s 2GB, yesterday:

The regular chat with the Treasurer is now abandoned. He can seek someone else out to have a talk to … I’m afraid I don’t like being lied to.

What has ScoMo done? The Australian online, yesterday:

Hadley said Mr Morrison’s office had told him he was not available to do his regular spot with him this morning because he was “travelling”. Hadley was about to tell his listeners that they would not be hearing the Treasurer today … when he was notified that at the same time Mr Morrison was appearing in the studio in Melbourne.

Pretty bad. But who was he with? ABC Melbourne’s Mornings with Jon Faine, yesterday:

Jon Faine: Mr Morrison, good morning to you.

Scott Morrison: Good morning, Jon.

Ah, Faine, that firm friend of Australian conservatives. Faine on ABC Melbourne, March 20, 2015:

Mr Abbott, for a Rhodes scholar, how come you say so many stupid things?

As a former PM said to a former treasurer … Kevin Rudd, ABC’s The Killing Season, June 16, 2015:

Betrayal’s pretty tough, mate.

But if they can move on from the Bible fiasco, surely there’s hope of a reunion? 2GB, September 18, 2015:

Hadley: … do you understand now that I think you misled me and my listeners on Monday?

Morrison: Well, I didn’t, Ray.

Hadley: Well, there’s a Bible there, will you put your right hand on it and swear on the Bible?

Oops, too late. The Australian online, yesterday:

Tony Abbott has emerged as the politician most likely to take up a regular weekly spot with broadcaster Ray Hadley

And Sam Dastyari gets his Labor history wrong. Twitter, Sunday:

House of the first Labor PM — Andrew Fisher — isn’t being kept as part of national history. Let’s change that …

Andrew Fisher wasn’t Australia’s first Labor prime minister. National Museum of Australia website:

Chris Watson played an important part in our history — he was the first leader of the Labor Party and the first Labor prime minister.

The NSW senator quickly deleted the tweet and found an excuse for his big mistake … Dastyari on Twitter, Sunday:

Ahh. My typo …

A typo? The video Sam posted with the tweet made the same mistake … Dastyari’s Twitter video, Sunday:

We’re here at the home of the first Labor prime minister, Andrew Fisher.

Vale John Clarke. The late satirist had too many moments of genius to count but “John Howard’s apology” is surely in the top five. ABC’s The Games, July 3, 2000:

Gina Riley: The rest of the world wants John Howard to apologise (to the Stolen Generations)?

Clarke: Yeah, correct.

Riley: Sit down.

(A videotape of actor John Howard plays, where he delivers an apology to indigenous Australians …)

Riley: What do you think?

Clarke: That wasn’t the prime minister.

Riley: He never said he was. He said he was John Howard …