The nominations are in, time to count the votes in this year’s Crikey Readers’ Choice Awards. The nominees are the lucky people listed below. You can vote here. We’ll be announcing the winners on Thursday. Tomorrow and Wednesday we’ll run some of the comments you included in your nominations for both the Person of the Year and coveted Golden Arsehat categories. Good luck one and all! 

The curious can check out last year’s winners here and here. 

And now, without further ado, the nominations are:

Crikey’s Person of the Year:

  • Barack Obama
  • Bob Brown
  • Collette the whale calf
  • Dr Mohamed Haneef
  • Julia Gillard
  • Ken Henry
  • Kevin Rudd
  • Kevin Rudd’s cat
  • Peter Cundall
  • Ross Garnaut

Australia’s Sexiest male politician:

  • Barnaby Joyce
  • Joe Hockey
  • John Faulkner
  • Malcolm Turnbull
  • Stephen Smith

Australia’s Sexiest female politician:

  • Julia Gillard
  • Julie Bishop
  • Kate Ellis
  • Penny Wong
  • Tanya Plibersek

The Inaugural Crikey Arsehat Awards:

The Ironbar: for the most painful politician of any parliament:

  • Christopher Pyne
  • Julie Bishop
  • Steve Fielding
  • Tony Abbott
  • Wayne Swan

The Delta: For the Australian bore of the year:

  • Brendan Nelson
  • Gerard Henderson
  • Kevin Rudd
  • Nicole Kidman
  • Wayne Swan

The Welcome to Country: for most overused expression in public rhetoric:

  • Decisive action
  • Going forward
  • Let me just say this
  • Moving forward
  • Working families

The Eddie: Most undeserving but overexposed media personality:

  • David Koch
  • Kyle Sandilands
  • Nicole Kidman
  • Peter Costello
  • Sam Newman

The Albrechtsen: For Australia’s kookiest public commentator:

  • Andrew Bolt
  • Catherine Deveny
  • Janet Albrechtsen
  • Miranda Devine
  • Piers Akerman

The Groves: For most spectacular corporate misadventure:

  • ABC Learning
  • Babcock & Brown
  • Fairfax
  • Gunns
  • Qantas

The Valdez: For an individual act of environmental vandalism:

  • Andrew Bolt
  • Cubbie Station
  • Gunns
  • John Howard
  • Kevin Rudd

And finally…

The Golden Arsehat: For the most appalling person of 2008:

  • Belinda Neal
  • Corey Worthington
  • Julie Bishop
  • Kevin Rudd
  • Peter Costello
  • Robert Mugabe
  • Sarah Palin
  • Steven Fielding
  • Tony Abbott
  • Troy Buswell

Vote in the 2008 Crikey readers’ choice awards here.