No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Friday, 29 April 2022   Quote to note “Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon has a certain ring to it” Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu presented the award to Tuvalu’s Ambassador Limasene Teatu to recognise her work to foster ties between the countries. The ABC’s Stephen Dziedzic reckons the accolade – which comes with a fancy […]

No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Thursday, 28 April 2022   Quote to note “Matt Canavan is becoming like the Japanese intelligence officer who refused to accept World War II was over and hid in the Philippines jungle for 30 years"  Nationals MP Darren Chester reckons his colleague needs to accept he’s lost the argument on net zero. The Coalition’s been out in […]

No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Wednesday, 27 April 2022   Quote to note “I am not going on Twitter. I am going to stay on Truth” Donald Trump says he has no intention of re-joining Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover. Trump was booted off the platform in the aftermath of the attack on Capitol Hill and set up his own (struggling) platform […]

No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Tuesday, 26 April 2022   Quote to note “When I was a prosecutor trying cases, I would have loved to have had cases where the entire crime was on video. That just doesn’t happen that often.”  Said Mary McCord, a Georgetown University Law Center professor, of 6 January US Capitol riot cases that are starting the hit […]

No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Friday, 22 April 2022   Quote to note “You will create a civil war in the suburbs, Madame Le Pen." Ahead of the second round of voting in the French presidential election on Sunday, incumbent Emmanuel Macron went toe-to-toe in a televised debate with his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen. She wants to ban Muslim headscarves in […]

No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Thursday, 21 April 2022   Quote to note “Eberhofer”  It’s the new name for a wild boar living at a Bavarian animal park after finding himself on the wrong side of European politics. Originally named Putin, the purebred Russian hog was to be renamed Zelensky until the park manager decided to go in a less controversial direction. […]

No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Wednesday, 20 April 2022   Quote to note “Every boy in this country in secondary school should have access to a rifle and know how to use it, and the reason for that is the Ukraine." Said Bob Katter last night during the Paul Murray Live Pub Test on Sky News. The Member for Kennedy in Far […]

No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Tuesday, 19 April 2022   Quote to note “Like the apocryphal tale of two hikers approached by a bear: Morrison only needs to outrun Albanese, not the bear.” Chief Pollster for Resolve Political Monitor Jim Reed has a way of spinning the numbers… His poll was published yesterday in the SMH/Age and had Labor’s Anthony Albanese falling […]

No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Thursday, 14 April 2022   Quote to note “Google it, mate.” Greens leader Adam Bandt was having none of the Financial Review‘s Ron Mizen trying to get him to quote the Wage Price Index during a Q&A at the National Press Club yesterday. Bandt says it’s that sort of ‘gotcha’ question that turns people off politics.   […]

No images? Click here Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here. Wednesday, 13 April 2022   Quote to note “He even said that I was in extraordinary health, which made me like him even more. Although he also said I should lose a couple of pounds!" Donald Trump has thrown his support behind “America’s Doctor” Dr Oz in the Republican Primary contest for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania. […]