When the hand that rocks the cradle rues the work involved
To the unnamed and distressed parents of twin girls, who are litigants in a landmark case with murky references to IVF and sexual orientation – your solution is simple. Sell the baby on eBay.
Disarming Gillard gives Handbag Hockey the Freudian slip
Joe Hockey and Team Howard appear to have an unhealthy fascination with Julia Gillard. They’ve got a big, fat manila folder with her name scrawled on the front. It’s the dirt file, bursting with clippings and transcripts. But their real fascination is with Gillard’s anatomy. And as the election draws near that fascination is hardening into a fixation, bordering on unhealthy obsession.
Defend our right to protest, but let the anarchists eat cake
Anarchy builds an appetite. Apparently. Which is perhaps why young anarchists in training were asked to ”bring a plate” to a solidarity meeting in Sydney last year. The mission, in between cake and cookies, was to ”confront and overcome all forms of social oppression”, a heady call for a Sunday tea party.
For art’s sake, let’s stop mortal spin on Mary burqa
So now the Virgin Mary and Mother of God wears a burqa. Albeit a rather fetching short one, but a burqa nevertheless. What was the artist thinking? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot. But artist and former alter boy Luke Sullivan’s passion for Our Lady of Fatima and the apparitions of 1917, have been all but drowned out by the hail of abuse.
SBS bosses wrong-footed as Mary moves to sink the slipper
Not even Dorothy’s red slippers, with their three clicks to Kansas, could see Mary Kostakidis walk back into SBS. Not now.
When one man’s ambition is another woman’s evil curse
Ambition is not a bad thing. The Prime Minister said so this week. Just a day after Peter Costello awoke to local radio birthday ditties – ”he’s destined to be the bridesmaid never the bride” – John Howard was extolling the virtues of ambition in his political nemesis wannabe. ”He’s an ambitious man, there’s nothing wrong with ambition,” Howard told journalists.
The tunnel vision of Kevin07 loses sight of real Australians
Federal politics has already descended into a daily orgy of public offence, and we’re not even there yet. The election date remains a known unknown. And while many of us are already suffering motion sickness, the journey’s end is rapidly losing its allure.
Unmasking the Janette factor: strategist, adviser and minder
The Prime Minister is right. It’s a dangerous business to ”get into a public commentary about your relationship with your wife”. So I’ll have a crack at it for him.
John and Posh show how to crash-land in their own spaces
John Howard must now know a little of what it’s like to be Posh Spice. And she him. Although I doubt Victoria Beckham has ever heard of John Winston.
In their efforts to be sexy, women fail to see the sexism
It was the kind of conversation you overhear accidentally, and then think twice. Perhaps about why you didn’t think more thoughtfully the first time.
What I really, really want is to liberate the Girl Power message
So they’re back! The famous five are strutting the world stage again. But now the needle stick heels are higher, the breasts are larger, Posh’s face is tighter, Ginger’s outfit is frumpier, and the Girl Power message is, well – whatever.
Nothing ordinary about the diverse blend of average Australia
Daniel Bowen you are so dumped. We are like so over. I’m not even going to send you a text or an email. You can just work it out for yourself. You’re finished.
Start grunting, girls, or we’ll keep on getting short-changed
She may be an annoying grunter, but if Maria Sharapova wins Wimbledon this year she’ll have won more than a Grand Slam. She will have won herself a place in feminist history books – whether she likes it or not.
If Paris could just kick straight she would be a free woman
Why isn’t Todd Carney in jail like Paris Hilton? After all, the Raiders halfback and the blond heiress have plenty in common. Although, Carney has a few up on Hilton. He’s been convicted of drink driving twice. She only once. She stopped when caught driving on a suspended licence. Carney sped off.
