Relax Kevin, it's just The Australian's little joke. The revolution is coming along nicely

Julia Gillard, June 16, 2009:

MY mind has gone back to a comedy show on television called Not the Nine O'Clock News. What I am hoping is that I might be able to reprise that comedy show on the basis of what is not in The Australian today about Building the Education Revolution. People may have seen reports in The Australian today about Holland Park State School. It is a great school in the electorate of the Prime Minister. In reading that report today in The Australian newspaper people may have come to the conclusion that there was a problem with this program.

Kevin Rudd's final address to the Federal Labor Party caucus as prime minister on June 24:

THE third of course goes to government waste and mismanagement, and the implementation of the Building the Education Revolution program and insulation. I understand the controversy which has arisen in this. Mistakes have been made in implementation. This obviously has been a further reason why we have suffered setbacks of late.

Prayer-free miracles. Ms Gillard on Friday:

OUR hearts do go out to the New Zealanders who would now be waiting very, very anxiously for news of their loved ones and friends. If there's any assistance that we can offer, then certainly we will offer it and we'll stay in touch with our New Zealand counterparts about it. The world has witnessed a mine disaster already this year, and a miracle when people came out alive, and so our very best wishes go to the New Zealanders as they deal with this situation.

Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd on Saturday:

OUR thoughts and our prayers go out to our Kiwi mates across the Tasman.

Ray Hadley on 2GB, Monday:

IT'S normal when we talk about such matters in a Christian society, and that's what we are, it's normal to say our hopes and prayers are with the families at this terrible time. I notice she avoided at all cost mentioning anything about prayers. She mentioned that our best wishes go to our friends in New Zealand. It must be a dilemma for her, as an atheist, who doesn't believe in some greater being when things like this happen. It was like she was wishing someone a happy birthday for their 21st, our best wishes.

Gillard on Jon Faine, June 29:

JON, I am not going to pretend a faith I don't feel.

Gillard commenting on Kevin Rudd's hospitalisation on July 30:

We're all hoping, wishing, praying for a speedy recovery.

Sarah McKenzie in The Age on November 22:

IMAGINE the following scenario: Your six-year-old son is walking out of school and notices friends on the other side of the road. Without thinking or looking, as children so often do, he runs straight into the path of an oncoming car. As you sit outside the emergency department waiting to hear whether your son will survive, do you wish the driver had been caught by a camera in the vicinity of your son's school or do you still bemoan the "nanny state" and all its "rules"?

Sinclair Davidson on Catallaxy Files:

THE problem here isn't the driver: it is the parent who lets their child run in the street. In this instance the nanny state is a very poor substitute for moronic parents.

Take it up with the teachers union. Paul Bibby in The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday:

IN March the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union will become United Voice. In its application, the union reveals: "The word 'miscellaneous' is difficult to spell and has a pejorative association for many members." "I think the biggest obstacle was that people constantly had difficulty with the initials -- we were constantly called LMHU, HLMU," the national president, Louise Tarrant, said. "The word 'liquor' is not in common usage and offends Muslim, indigenous, childcare and aged-care members."

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