Cop it sweet
IN NSW the Liberals keep assuring public servants they have nothing to fear if (and Strewth is no believer in sure things) the conservatives win the imminent election, which means taxpayers do.
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Kimeo for Shane?
WE’RE just crazy about youse babes. Strewth is loving the prospect of a Kath and Kim feature filum and really really wants to know whether it will include the cameo appearances that are the ladies’ MO.
Diplomatic punt
CHUFFED were we to see a shiny red Sherrin sailing through the Oval Office. Not
Bad old days
WITH rugby league players Benji Marshall and Todd Carney, as well as AFL manager Ricky Nixon, all being accused of bad behaviour recently, Strewth wondered what would have happened if the standards of today had been applied to behaviours of yesteryear.
Grope for power
THE NSW election literally became a race to the bottom yesterday after an independent candidate in Sydney’s western suburbs accused a Liberal candidate of improper behaviour.
Reflux action
KATE Wilson is not a girl who gives up. While reading the 3am news yesterday on Melbourne radio 3AW she suffered a bad attack of the hiccups – not technical glitches, physical hiccups.
A Gaddafi too far
WITH some help from Peter Dutton’s bold vision and the creative input of Craig Emerson’s office, Strewth firmly established the Trade Minister as Muammar Gaddafi yesterday.
Colonel Emmo
WHEN Peter “Star quality” Dutton opted yesterday to draw parallels between Trade Minister Craig Emerson and Muammar Gaddafi, it got our mind racing, and not just because of yesterday’s Jana-Wendt-in-Tripoli item.
The despot and I
AS the curtain threatens to come down on Muammar Gaddafi’s stint as Libya’s resident despot, it’s time to think back to a happier time, by which we mean when Jana Wendt and her 60 Minutes team went to Tripoli to interview him in the early 1980s.
Wayne of the web
WAYNE Swan was at the Queensland Young Labor Conference on the weekend singing the praises of social media.
Bad manners
ONE of the more striking aspects of 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones’s chat with Julia Gillard was how much time he chewed up berating the PM for running late.
Play time
THERE was something about a carbon tax in parliament yesterday, but the details were eclipsed by Tony Abbott’s use of Shakespeare.
Tough on fruit
NEW Zealand may be dealing with a calamity, but that doesn’t mean the nation’s officialdom is taking its eyes off the finer details.
Brady punch
MOST public servants dread appearing before Senate committees to be questioned, but not the Governor-General’s official secretary Stephen Brady.
Don’t call us
WITH Libya on the brink of civil war, it seemed high time to see how news from home was being received at the embassy in the Canberra.
Bob off with birds
LAST week, Britain’s Daily Telegraph warned its readers that Australia’s repertoire of dangerous creatures consisted of more than just reptiles, spiders, sharks and Shane Warne: “Australians hit by Cyclone Yasi warned to stay away from deadly giant birds” it began.
Vis-a-vis a visa
IN the wake of the Golden Globes and so forth, we have our fingers crossed the Academy Awards will be the one that gets it right and gives Jacki Weaver a gong for her turn in Animal Kingdom.
Elton bomb
IN the great Australian tradition of punting on anything, yesterday bookies were taking bets on how many people would watch comedian and Blackadder writer Ben Elton’s Live from Planet Earth last night.
Grey matters
BROADCASTER Ray Hadley may be a fellow student in the field of Craig Emerson hair studies (Strewth, last week), but his approach differs.
Inside story
STREWTH! Advance apologies for anything untoward that may appear hereafter. You must put it down to a certain correspondent’s astonishment at being asked to fill such an esteemed space in the journal.
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