Stick ’em up
FORMER bank director turned publisher and crime ‘n’ thriller writer John Green is discovering the perils of his new career.
Strewth
Channel Kevin
COMEDIAN and serial Kevin Rudd-channeller Anthony Ackroyd was in full flight in Sydney on the weekend.
Grand hopes
HEALTH Services Union East branch boss Michael Williamson may be having a little break, but the show must go on.
Hit and mist
AT yesterday’s launch of Frank Sartor’s book there was general agreement that Labor, like a dung beetle egg, is deep in the doo.
Weird mob
STREWTH was more than a little curious to hear Julia Gillard open the tax forum yesterday with the expression “mob handed”.
Mad to the max
WHEN we consider Angry Anderson’s quest for Nationals power it’s impossible not to hark back to his turn on the silver screen.
Julia’s peaking
OUR first thought on seeing Julia Gillard’s eyes-wide-shut portrait on the cover of the “power issue” of The Australian Financial Review Magazine yesterday was of Twin Peaks’ Laura Palmer, one of TV’s most famous stiffs.
On deaf ears
CAN we believe federal Labor MP David Bradbury’s declaration that his eardrums are untouched by criticism of the mining tax?
Julia’s 50 candles
JULIA Gillard turns 50 today.
What’s the scoop?
YESTERDAY’S scoop quote from Kevin Rudd might have been a Freudian slip.
Lost souls
THERE was an inadvertently blood-congealing moment during Senate estimates yesterday.
Botham’s beef
AS you will have (never) noticed, Strewth pays a great deal of attention to the advice of cricketers.
Brat pack
WE gather some federal government ministers are, rather wisely, ensuring their emotional wellbeing by resisting the asylum-seeker vortex.
Evasive action
SOMETIMES it’s more fun to hear just one half of a conversation and build the entire beast out of a handful of bones.
Game of thrones
THE last time Strewth lobbed in Canberra, the Parliament House lawn was adorned with members of the Convoy of No Confidence.
Manne power
DAVID Manne will be giving a talk at the University of Western Sydney tonight on “the crisis of current refugee policy and law”.
Site for soreheads
NOTHING like a good, old-fashioned bit of harrumphing in a political press release.
Crunching years
COALITION MP George Christensen is keen to get building an education revolution of sorts, by which we mean sending Bill Shorten back to primary school.
Fellow toe-cutters
THERE was something less than totally surprising about seeing celebrated toe-cutter Mark “Chopper” Read and Rudd-lopper Mark Arbib interacting on Twitter yesterday.
Bromantic
THE story that President Barack Obama will visit Australia in November was, er, um, broken several weeks ago.
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