Hawkie schtick
WE have rarely experienced a sense of void as utterly empty as the one created by Mark Latham’s 60 Minutes report.
Strewth
People person
MAKERS of fine musical instruments often stamp their identity somewhere on the body, so why don’t makers of dog whistles follow suit?
Liberally derided
JOEL Scalzi has been on reality TV and on the receiving end of talkback radio; guess which was harder?
Battle pauses
THERE was an outbreak of bipartisanship in inner Sydney’s Redfern yesterday.
Initial reaction
STREWTH is not a fan of party political campaign ads.
In Malcolmland
WE were amused to see a photo in this august organ yesterday of Malcolm Turnbull seated beneath a screen proclaiming him to be “Malcolm Turnbull, federal minister for Wentworth”.
Cheesy all round
SEVERAL of Strewth’s correspondents found the Liberal Party’s election policy launch excruciating for its cheesy music, cliched advertisement-style interludes, bogan twanging and squealing sycophants reminiscent of happy-clappy evangelical sessions.
Boxing shadows
AS Kevin Rudd limbers up in the red corner for Labor, Strewth is growing giddy with flashbacks to 2007.
Gilding the education revolution.
Rest easy, the Education Minister and the government have dodged the BER trap.
Very tricky
BEING an atheist can present unexpected challenges.
Those in the no
PERHAPS we could blame the recent sortie by Alexander Downer into the election campaign for the increasing density of the Coalition gaffe-mosphere.
Now it’s personal
JULIA Gillard may have been accused of being, ahem, overly pragmatic about older voters, but that hasn’t stopped her joining Tony Abbott for a Q&A for the next issue of 50 something magazine.
Bear’s burden
WHEN Julia Gillard moved into the prime ministerial suite, she let the media in for a good snoop. That’s how we know she has a fine taste in memorabilia.
Cyber bromance
WITH the flirty affair between Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard fading to a sepia-tinged memory, we can console ourselves with another beautiful friendship.
Sweet or sour
THE closest Sunday night’s debate came to electrifying us was when a thunderstorm over Sydney did its best to take the roof from over our head.
Having a ball
WHEN people say a picture’s worth a thousand words, it’s clearly a figure plucked out of the air, as round as it is random.
Touch of vapours
JULIA Gillard’s plan to get us all “moving forward” appeared first as an insignificant speck in the distance, only to swiftly take on terrifying and unexpected proportions.
The togs of war
REASONS floated for Julia Gillard’s decision to call an August election range from opportunism to a desire for her own mandate (as opposed to a man date, which she already has).
Chinese whispers
WHILE Kevin Rudd fought off media queries yesterday with an avalanche of feelgood tweets from New York, it was a couple from Therese Rein that caught our eye.
Moving on
WHILE Julia Gillard relentlessly moves the nation forward (give or take some valiant resistance from Laurie Oakes at the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday), we’re worried Wayne Swan is drifting from the script.
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