Hold our beer
It must have been quite a meeting when the Coalition brains trust hatched plans for overshadowing Labor’s national conference.
Strewth
Ming bling
In the corner of Canberra that is forever Menzies, we found someone had given him the festive` treatment.
Fire and ice
Out wielding shovels were Deputy PM Michael McCormack and Defence Minister Christopher Pyne.
The final frontier
When the first man in space visited Brazil’s new capital he said: “I feel as if I stepped on the surface of another planet.”
The ace of mace
Parliamentary maces don’t get starring moments often enough
Lose the House
Peter Dutton takes us a step closer to a military coup.
Shorten shrift
Bill Shorten says helping to pass the encryption legislation was a case of accepting “half a win” rather than continuing “angry shouting”.
Deck the halls
Sussan Ley tried to keep things on a festive footing by donning a pair of Santa faces in the House of Representatives.
Happy anniversary
Just two days shy of the first anniversary of same-sex marriage passing into law, parliament got bogged down on same-sex matters.
Museum peace
It was hard not to reflect on the gulf between Scott Morrison and John Howard in old Parliament House’s Museum of Australian Democracy.
Fresh Mal content
Despite his bleak poetry, Malcolm Turnbull did give a firm indication he’s coming to terms with his fate.
New around here
Donald Trump cracked the mystery Labor has struggled with at every question time since Malcolm Turnbull departed.
Bye-bye curious
One of life’s constants these days is rumours Liberal MP Craig Kelly is pondering leaving his party.
Brought to heel
In donating her red heels Julie Bishop showed us all how the “but” word can be used to devastating effect.
By the baubles
At least it got to feel a bit like Christmas for a few festive minutes.
The Monday after
There was a certain afterglow for one side in Canberra yesterday.
A little kicker
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews allowed himself a little victory lap yesterday on ABC’s Insiders.
Mind, how it goes
It is quite possible that the studio of Sky News presenter David Speers is a Bermuda Triangle for brains.
Mike the magic stud
Doff your cap to the paper that put the headline ‘Stud to investigate water options’ over a photo of Michael McCormack.
Migrating position
‘The roads are clogged, the buses and trains are full,’ our PM has declared. Must be time to cut immigration.
Man for all seasons
It’s possibly not quite where we pictured Scott Morrison’s prime ministership just before it hit the ripe old age of three months.
Hearing Mal
Apparently Malcolm Turnbull is a “live-by-the-sword, die-by-the-sword type of person.”
Gone to the togs
Eric Abetz has been able to return to the all-important task of conjuring troubling mental images out of thin air.
Show of hands
There were a couple of WTF moments in Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Aunty’s own killing season.
ScoMotion Pictures
We are witnessing the birth of Pollywood.
The mountaineer
Politicians’ transcripts tend to start with a rundown of topics covered. But once in a while someone tries to liven things up.
All in a flap
Scott Morrison found time for a variation on the beloved broad church.
Quick, not painless
It was at least one of the nation’s speediest press conferences.
A kick up the ask
Even before the line “like a turd in a well” bobbed up, Strewth was having flashbacks to when Scott Morrison was in his happy place.
Great wall of ScoMo
Scott Morrison’s original 146-song Spotify playlist had just the one Australian tune.
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