On Kev’s head
THERE’S not much in the way of light relief when it comes to the devastation in the Sunshine State, so we’re grateful to Catch the Fire Ministries’ pastor Danny Nalliah.
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Carr boils over
THERE’S no mistaking the love for the US that beats in the heart of former NSW premier Bob Carr, so the shootings in Arizona have obviously hit him hard.
Kev’s the one
ACCORDING to a search of Strewth mentions during the past 12 months, Kevin Rudd is still the most newsworthy person in the nation.
Oprah house
UNTIL Hugh Jackman’s accidental moment of “light entertainment”, the most striking vision from the latest day of the Oprah Winfrey occupation was the one and only Martin Ferguson.
Bit of a jerky
HAVING read through Oprah Winfrey’s guest list for her show this week (Russell Crowe, Bindi Irwin, Olivia Newton John and, well, you can probably guess the rest), we couldn’t help but cross our fingers and hope there was still time for the addition of Shane Warne to flesh out the list.
Hughes on first
WHAT do you do when the film about your clan scores a gong at the AFI awards?
Cook unplugged
THERE was a rumour of the most special kind floating about yesterday morning: that someone representing Oprah Winfrey (you may have heard of her) had got in touch with the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra on the off chance they might have some footage of James Cook’s 1770 landing in Botany Bay.
Pre-Wiki whinge
EVERY morsel of information about man-of-the-moment Julian Assange is being seized on, so why should Strewth be any different? He wrote exclusively for The Australian yesterday, but it wasn’t the first time.
Paper cuts
IT is more in sorrow than anger that we take issue with Greg Hywood’s attack on this organ yesterday.
Swift parry
ONE of Bronwyn Bishop’s talents is to get stuck in at the dispatch box when someone’s asking the wrong sort of question or in danger of giving the wrong sort of answer.
In therapy
PERHAPS it’s the approach of Christmas, but ABC1’s Insiders host Barrie Cassidy seemed keener to act as therapist than inquisitor with Tony Abbott yesterday.
Frank frog saver
AND so we say farewell to former NSW opposition leader, Peter Debnam, one of the brave pioneers of the conservative budgie-smuggler look.
Good looks, bah
QUEENSLAND Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek has been spelling out why he’s the right man for the premier’s gig, this time in Brisbane News magazine, where he has spoken adoringly of his sister, broadcaster Kate Langbroek.
Good as his word
WHEN a new premier assures voters that not much will change, Strewth’s heart sinks with disappointment.
Moving on at last
FOR anyone with a sense of aesthetics (or indeed eyesight), Movember sometimes can seem the cruellest month.
Baz no sluggo
AS we watched Victorian Liberal leader Ted Baillieu emerging from the romantically beige water of Port Phillip Bay in his Speedos yesterday, it struck us it may be time for us all to put the smirking about budgie smugglers to bed.
Age of bad timing
WHEN you run a large, metropolitan newspaper, or at least The Age, there must be times when the weight of spreading so much bad news into the world can become a little tough on the conscience.
Ashes and dust
ENGLISH cricket writer Simon Barnes has attempted a shameless piece of reverse psychology by exaggerating the terrors of the Gabba where the first Test begins today.
Celeb sanctions
A VITAL ingredient naggingly missing from this space has been Olivia Newton-John, so it was with relief we noted she was with Victorian Premier John Brumby yesterday.
Howes low
ONE could be forgiven for thinking/hoping/praying like mad Paul Howes had got pretty well everything off his chest about Kevin Rudd in Confessions of Faceless Man.
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