The ramming of the shears

Of course, my vote will have minimal effect. Through some shonky dealings over the years, the 350 000 residents of Canberra elect just four MPs, compared to Tasmania, where 325 000 voters return seventeen representatives. My vote will count for 0.001% of the total. It’s more a matter of making me feel that I’ve done my tiny best.

Rudd rage

And now we find that someone high up in the Rudd government – headed by a man notorious for making enemies and holding grudges over the decades, described as being “fuelled by rage” – has been leaking damaging information on the new Prime Minister during a crucial election campaign.

Kitchen cabinet

Television was the place to be last night. First, Masterchef. This is the second season of a reality show based on cooking (as opposed to dancing or singing or losing great slabs of weight) and it is amazingly popular. Last night, the final. Believe it or not, but one of the finalists was a twenty-year [...]