JBish flying high
Julie Bishop used her beloved West Coast Eagles as an opportunity to remind everyone she is kind of popular.
Strewth
Down the hatch
Bill Shorten cooked up a strawberry pancake storm.
Tamper crisis
Are strawberry saboteurs food terrorists, as some suggest? Or berrorists?
Put a patch on it
It’s a small regret, but a corner of our heart is filled with sorrow that Ann Sudmalis didn’t wear her pirate outfit.
Just flagging it
It would be understandable if Scott Morrison was feeling a up against it, even his trusty old distress signal was issuing warnings.
Thinking cap
Darren Chester asked singer Lee Kernaghan if he could borrow his Akubra for the purpose of starting a new way of picking PMs.
Manhattan project
During Scott Morrison’s speech to the Midwinter Ball, Sarah Hanson-Young cried out, ‘Bring back Malcolm!’
The beg picture
Things turned earthy with claims Scott Morrison once got very cross with Tasmanian Treasurer Peter Gutwein.
Summit time
It was a peak performance of a different kind yesterday as Scott Morrison rallied his troops in the Coalition partyroom meeting.
Sign of times outside parliament
There was a protest sign outside Parliament House yesterday listing the words, ‘Ignorance, cruelty, sorrow, disappointment’.
A hopeful hero
With the NSW Liberals’ rout in Wagga Wagga adding to the whiff of looming cataclysm, talk of mortality is to be expected.
PM of hearts
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so Scott Morrison tried to steer the nation towards the power of prayer
Waiting for Gonzo
Scott Morrison seem to go some way to confirming that the Liberal turmoil was created mostly by ‘Muppet’ like creatures.
Instant noodle classic
South Australian Treasurer Rob Lucas gas taken us back to Noodle Nation.
Giving a fig
Bill Shorten was invited to respond to a tasteless Father’s Day tweet, and Scott Morrison’s less than happy response to it.
Unfortunate events
Back from the safe distance of Jakarta, our sudden-onset Prime Minister is due to catch up with Alan Jones on 2GB today.
Tear down this wall
Sarah Henderson put the Lib-ocalypse behind her by using a sledgehammer to beat the hell out of a wall like.
ScoMo in league of his own
See Scott run (sort of). See Scott catch (more or less). It’s surely one of the most traditional leadership initiation ceremonies of all.
Let the eyes have it
There was almost a whiff of fatalism around Scott Morrison.
Recycle your leader
The best thing to come out of the leadership spill: a tote bag emblazoned with the words ‘Ban the single use prime minister’.
PM’s bonce fashion
Scott Morrison turned up in Quilpie in outback Queensland yesterday in a hat that Was Not An Akubra.
Glass half full
Simon Birmingham threatens to steal Michael McCormack’s crown as parliament’s tireless king of wishful thinking.
Horror scope
With our politics presently in the gutter, it’s surely time to look at the stars.
Touched by ScoMo
Scott Morrison was asked about his leadership aspirations. “Me?” he replied, nearly dislocating his eyebrows.
In a word, or two
Amid parliament’s latest day of chaos a line in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy sprang to mind.
Moments like these
Before the shell of Malcolm Turnbull emerged in Parliament House’s appositely chosen Blue Room, backbencher Craig Kelly was out being helpful.
Bob at the opera
Bob Dylan turned up at the Sydney Opera House to see Verdi’s Rigoletto.
Dancing with death
When a heartfelt Matt Canavan spoke against the assisted suicide legislation on Wednesday, he should have dug as deep as Aunty.
Pauline’s cluck bait
Pauline Hanson uttered a sentence that will be accessible for billions of years until our Sun expands and consumes the planet.
Talking turkey
How Tony Abbott got a little lost in gobbledygook.
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