It’s that time of the year when Crikey readers decide who wins and who loses in the game of public life (plus who looked hottest on the parliamentary stage).
Last year Tony Abbott romped it home as Arsehat of the Year, disability rights advocate Stella Young was a well-deserved Person of the Year, Scott Ludlam stole the crown from Malcolm Turnbull as sexiest male pollie, and Tanya Plibersek took out sexiest female MP.
This year, on account of the former PM’s unfair advantage in the category of Arsehat (see: almost everything he did in 2015), we retired him from the public vote and awarded him the Golden Arsehat for lifetime achievement. Read on to find out who won your heart (and middle finger) in 2015 …
This is not the last edition of Crikey for the year — we’ll be publishing right up until December 23 to make sure we don’t miss any of those uncomfortable government announcements that get dropped on the quiet around this time of year.
If you’re lucky enough to be finishing up today, spare a thought for us here in the bunker, and don’t forget to check in between naps, books and mojitos.
Crikey, apologies for assuming earlier that you, the trusted yahoos upon whom we sybarite Houyhnhnm rely, would be goofing off asap and not really coming back until the Summer Somnolence end, circa Feb.
I guess that’s why we pay you the bigbuck$ but thanks are none the less due for a good year of reportage.
Just the way it should be, perspicacious, ignorant, sloppy, acute and, at times, earth-shattering, biased and so open minded that anything can infiltrate, infuriating & reassuring.
Well done and I hope that there’ll be an extra lump of renewable erg in your stocking on the 26th.