Onwards, upwards
Optimism came in all shapes and sizes
Strewth
Cheque, mate
Georgina Downer is having fun with other people’s money.
Sheet storm
As Scott Morrison booms about ‘the Canberra bubble’, it’s instructive to look back on a more innocent time.
Go the extra Marles
It’s a rare person who can bring happiness to Matthew Canavan and Richard Di Natale with a single sentence.
Hello, world of pain
Mathias Cormann’s glitch over an overseas trip aroused, ooh, one or two questions.
Intruder alert
Parliament returned and no one tried to land a punch and no one daubed blood on a door. Instead, there was a cyber attack.
A Shire thing
Scott Morrison has called on the lingo of his adopted homeland of Sutherland Shire.
Curse on this place
Following Wednesday night’s fisticuffs and the blood on Pauline Hanson’s office door, we find ourselves thinking of Danny Nalliah.
Slither of truth
After a lull discernible to trained eyes, the battle to decide which side is the worst in Oz politics is back under way with gusto.
Mane event
It was some way into Tony Burke’s chat with David Bevan and Ali Clarke that a small, Newspoll-powered slip occurred.
PM pumped as
What would an interpreter have made of Scott Morrison at the National Press Club?
A time to Bill
Scott Morrison has been in a free-flowing mood these past few days — not least on Kerryn Phelps’s bill on offshore processing.
Bums on bus seats
When it comes to making democratic involvement sound like a jolly holiday, Unions ACT has got it covered.
Dead letter office
One person on the receiving end of Clive Palmer’s spam deluge is Rhiannon Keyte, who decided enough was enough.
Before the big wet
George Christensen’s website is still exhorting us to ‘Help secure water for Townsville’.
Tony’s flush drive
A semi-naked Tony Abbott has appeared in front of a row of Portaloos pleading for proper dunnies at his local surf club.
Done by Ken
As Kenneth Hayne sat next to him, one of the questions that floated to mind was: What had Josh Frydenberg done to deserve this?
Troy boy
PM hails a worthy Trojan whose passion knows no bounds.
Bill v food
Bill Shorten’s encounters with food are thrilling because you can never be sure who’s going to come out of it best.
The good life
Scott Morrison got in a question about the local federal member nice and early: ‘How good is Trevor Evans?’
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