Grapes of rock
IF we’d ever been asked what line of alcoholic beverage might be marketed by AC/DC, we would not have guessed it would be anything grape-based.
Strewth
Jet stream Tony
WHO could have predicted that coal-seam gas would turn the Coalition inside out, or upside down, or both?
Homing in
FOLLOWING the soft landing that was Johnny Young’s interview with the freshly returned Tony Abbott, it was inevitable things would get rougher.
At one with Tim
IT could be the achievement that finally gets people talking.
Petrel bombs
THERE hasn’t been much humour inspired by the London riots, so far. Even Britain’s newspaper cartoons are understandably mournful.
Just between us
A LITTLE glimpse into the spin cycle in the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.
Buried pleasure
AMID the gathering economic gloom, one figure is offering hope.
Number crunch
ONE of Julia Gillard’s duties in Launceston yesterday was to attend the opening of a new stand at Aurora Stadium.
Sic joke
WE realise things must be a bit tight in NSW Labor since it was destroyed in the recent state election.
NBN gets shirty
THE launch of the National Broadband Network at Melbourne’s Brunswick trial site did not err on the side of understatement.
Flood of scorn
HINDSIGHT, as any punter leaving the racetrack can tell you, is the most accurate of all sights.
The lowdown
WE get a bit worried here at Strewth about the heightism creeping into Australian politics.
The DVD method
KEVIN Rudd knows a thing or two about knife jobs.
Quiet on the front
THERE’S an eerie silence emanating from the Lodge, assuming silence can emanate.
Get over it
TONY Blair continues to grant audiences paying $1000 a head the pleasure of his company, yesterday it was Sydney’s turn.
Hogg-tied?
THE president of the Senate, John Hogg, hardly dominates the national political stage — or the international one.
Rock on, Barnesy
POOR Jimmy Barnes is having a little trouble with the old ticker, and we wish him well for a speedy recovery.
Ghost ship
WHEN Bono was looking for a place to stay in Sydney, he inquired about chartering a yacht, the kind that tycoons and celebrities lounge about on.
Cadelmania
SYDNEY City Council claimed the prize as the most shameless exploiter of Cadel Evans’s stunning Tour de France win.
Shorten answer
BEREFT of answers to hard questions, Julia Gillard has enlisted assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten to take on the task.
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