Christian Kerr writes:

Watch lazy pollie. Finally! A Jackie Kelly
Dancing on Icevideo.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Is Tony Abbott being punished by the Torquemadas

of the NSW Liberal right for failing to back their candidate Michael Darby in the Manly preselection?

Unfortunate habit. Politicians tend to
speak in catchphrases that encapsulate their key message. This can be
unfortunate when they deploy them at the wrong time. Like Foreign Minister
Alexander Downer did yesterday: “The
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says as far as he knows only one Australian remains
to be evacuated from the Lebanese port city of Tyre and he or she will be deported today.” Deported,
Minister?

Labor aristocracy. North of Sydney, there’s
talk that Belinda Neal might take the seat of Gosford. And south, down
Wollongong way, there’s talk that Terry Rumble, the former member for Illawarra,
is busy signing up members for the Dapto Branch to enable son John to replace sitting
MP Marianne Saliba. More tensions for the Labor Right?