SHE came to Sydney to play the role of Matron Mama Morton in Chicago and she may have been expecting glamour but Kath and Kim comedian Gina Riley instead found herself occupying a room in a Darling Harbour hotel that overlooked the Pig Ship.
STATE governments are normally keen to trap journalists in their budget lock-ups, as a means to guarantee coverage.
A SMALL segment of the population is unusually charitable, judging by the results of a poll at Ninemsn.com.au.
JUST when we all thought it was a hoax of World Health Organisation Level 6 pandemic proportions, Australia is in the grip of swine flu and nobody seems to care.
JOURNALISTS don’t always feel particularly beloved as a profession. This is even more the case when they’re camped outside the headquarters of one of their targets.
AFTER federal Arts Minister Peter Garrett got to his feet in parliament yesterday to congratulate the makers of Samson & Delilah for their triumph in Cannes (the Camera d’Or, for heaven’s sake!), his Opposition counterpart – the somewhat more enigmatic Steven Ciobo – also chipped in.
ARE reports of the premature death of Shane Warne the Musical exaggerated?
THE saga of Tim Andrews and his heavily illustrated blog post on the “hottest girls” of Australian politics continues.
FORMER Australian Liberal Students Federation president Tim Andrews’s pictorial spread of conservative hotties didn’t last long after its outing in Strewth yesterday.
POLITICS seems to be becoming a family business in Queensland, where an election looms.
AS AUSTRALIA’S population ages, we can proudly claim an increasing number of centenarians, but our number of dames is dwindling.
ANTI-DEVELOPMENT types have come up with a heart-rending romantic yarn, wrapped around recently engaged couple Sara Cameron and Sam Maloney, in an effort to convince Tassie Premier David Bartlett not to drive a road through the Tarkine wilderness.
FOR a dedicated teetotaller, George W. Bush sure knows how to treat guests who like a glass or three of vino with their tucker.
FEDERAL Sport Minister Kate Ellis, who had a long stint as a student at Adelaide’s Flinders University without quite managing to snare a degree, first became interested in politics when government higher education funding was slashed and students started racking up impressive Higher Education Contribution Scheme debts.
TODAY is the 25th anniversary of the Franklin Dam High Court decision, and Bob Hawke, Bob Brown, David Bellamy and 930 others will gather in Hobart tonight to celebrate their win for the wilderness.
THE Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Western Australia’s most active conservative lobby group, has a track record of campaigning against state Labor governments.
CONDITIONS on the opening day yesterday of the inquest into the death of Australian soldier Jake Kovco were anything but comfortable.
WITHIN the grounds of Parliament Housethere are various courtyards that are usedby all politicians for media conferences.
WHISPERS in Queensland suggest the idea of splitting the state into two time zones during the summer months could be introduced next year.
FOR a while on Monday night Collingwood’s Dane Swan was doing very well in the AFL Brownlow Medal count.
THE unknown nightclub patron who slipped former rugby league star Andrew “Joey” Johns an ecstasy tablet in London last weekend could not have had worse timing.
TONY Abbott’s wife Margie says the Health Minister, with his usual boundless enthusiasm has taken to a new pastime she has labelled “golf without guilt”.
THE Herald Sun’s decision to give up 14 pages to analysis of Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy’s dismissal raised non-sporting eyebrows.
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