GG Hurley in the thick of Brother Scott's constitutional botch-up ... Time for repairs at Yarralumla ... A song and a prayer from the vice regal consort ... Another threat from Camp Murdoch ... Uday prefers to dish it out, but can't take the heat ... Nine newspapers and mental health sensitivities ... Packer's spat with former media patsy
Year: 2022
Snouts galore
Full employment for the political class ... Crowded at the trough ... Who gets the plum pudding ... A conga-line of pocket moisteners ... What's in those boxes hauled out of Mar-a-Lago? ... Alex Jones's best lawyer recommendation ... CPAC is coming
All S.O.O.R.T…ed
Sweetener for public servant at the top of Giovanni's mess ... Premier gives a direction to a Liberal in-charge of pay packets ... Dark days ahead for NSW ICAC as Perrottet makes contingency plans for a ministerial corruption inquiry ... Summing-up for Roberts-Smith dripping in well-worn clichés ... Guerrilla art in Sydney and Armidale
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The precious thoughts of rusticated politicians ... Newspapers lap up the wisdom of junked pollies ... Henderson and Marr ... Birthday party for celebrated journalist turns into a wake ... Australian High Commission's cultural sensitivity program for PNG highlands ... Rupert cheated at Oxford ... Giovanni's last stand ... New York or bust
The Dreyfus Affair
The Collaery case comes full circle - unclean hands from Liberal and Labor ... Bookshelves Brandis, national security guru, books himself a slot as a newspaper columnist ... Gussy prefers to protect rural property prices rather than the planet
Genghis & Co
Dutton's frontbench - a basket of deplorables ... Regressive Opposition climateers ... Any questions for Pretty Boy Taylor? ... Sussan Ley can't count ... Puffery from Nine fish wraps for Sloppy Joe Hockey ... Blundering hack forces Smellograph grovel ... Jubilee Queen, the hard-headed lobbyist . . . 500 Words or thereabouts is taking a winter break, returning the week of July 4