PM’s bonce fashion
Scott Morrison turned up in Quilpie in outback Queensland yesterday in a hat that Was Not An Akubra.
Strewth
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.
Tipping points
The valedictory speech from Greens senator Lee Rhiannon was always going to blaze a fresh trail for Parliament House.
Notes for Naipaul
Much has been said about VS Naipaul since his death yesterday, but there is one lesser-known fact that is a real diamond.
Hanging the Queen
Anyone wondering why they can’t get through to their local MP? It might have something to do with an article about the Queen.
Trigger warning
Via the ragged channels of Twitter yesterday, Liberal MP Ian Goodenough reinstilled Strewth’s thoughts on democracy.
Spies like them
One of the smaller spin-offs of the banking royal commission was the conversation Scott Morrison got to have on 3AW.
The Reich stuff
Sky News’s ill-fated chat with an Adolf Hitler fan opens the door to exciting programming ideas.
Dodging coral
The Emma Husar scandal continues to inspire poetry from Labor’s best.
In the trenches
Asked about Emma Husar, one Labor figure responded with a hybrid of poetic lyricism and grim reality.
United by Mal
In the Alan Jones universe, is there any unifying force more powerful than Malcolm Turnbull?
‘Jack Whelan’ steals the show
A greyhound called Jack Whelan has won the hearts and minds of those following the Emma Husar saga.
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