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September 10th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
SEND in the clowns! By which we mean, a moment from a Tony Abbott presser yesterday:
Abbott: “Look, I did catch a part of [At Home with Julia]. I had a good belly laugh. Let’s see how the program goes. Will there be a second series? This is the big question.”
Journo: “Will there be an ‘At Home with Tony’?
Abbott: “Yes, and no doubt they’ll get Rowan Atkinson to play me. Any other questions?” No, as it proved; there some mental images that aren’t conducive to continued thought. But the question is, which side of Atkinson does Abbott see as the most pertinent? Mr Bean or Blackadder? And if Blackadder, he’s surely going to need a Baldrick – but who could possibly fulfil a role like that?
No canvassing
GERARD Vaughan is leaving the National Gallery of Victoria, where he has been director for 12 years. It comes soon after Edmund Capon announced his retirement as head of the Art Gallery of NSW. This organ’s illustrious arts editor, Ashleigh Wilson, asked Allan Myers, the president of the board of trustees at the NGV, whether Vaughan might end up at the AGNSW. Myers deemed this unlikely: “I wouldn’t think Gerard would be wanting to do that because he had the premier job in the visual arts in Australia. Why would he take a step backwards?” Ahem.
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Dummy spits
BETWEEN the High Court ruling and Craig Thomson (an anagram, incidentally, of “root scam nigh”), you’d expect federal Labor would be working hard to regain control of the agenda. It is, we imagine, partly to this end that David Bradbury, parliamentary secretary to the Treasurer, was working with this press release yesterday: “Permanent bans for baby bling: Baby ‘bling’ dummies and dummy chains decorated with crystals and other ornaments that do not meet strict safety standards have been permanently banned.”
Pass with credit
SPEAKING of Thomson, the last couple of times this august organ has caught up with Rosemary Kelly, the extremely helpful secretary of Health Services Union Victoria No 4, she has been on leave and on the road in places such as Costa Rica and Buenos Aires. Alas, she may have the cake but she doesn’t have the icing. Or as she worded it: “I just want to stress I don’t have a union credit card.”
Plains talk
FOLLOWING periods dabbling in everything from poofle valves to Maxwell Smart-isms, it’s nice to see Emmo returning to the comfort of an old favourite during a long-distance interview with Radio National’s Michael Mackenzie yesterday:
Mackenzie: “In the town of Saskatoon to chair the meeting of the Cairns Group is Australia’s Trade Minister, Craig Emerson, and he joins us on the line now from Canada. Minister, welcome to the program.”
Emmo: “Thanks very much. ‘I’m busted flat in Saskatoon, heading for the plain, feeling nearly as faded as my jeans,’ as Kris Kristofferson once sang.”
It certainly put Mackenzie in a lyrical mood by chat’s end: “Dr Craig Emerson, who’s our Trade Minister, who’s been taking part in these 19-nation Cairns Group talks on world trade happening in Canada, in the province of Saskatchewan, the town of Saskatoon. I just love saying those words.”
Small world
THANKS to the delicacy of the whole offshore processing question and Labor’s rejection of methods favoured by the Howard government, there was always going to be a molecule or two of awkwardness in the air whenever Julia Gillard and Nauru President Marcus Stephen were in the same vicinity. So it’s droll to be reminded that Stephen’s spokesman, Rod Henshaw, was once Liberal candidate for the seat of Dickson (he lost to Cheryl Kernot) and MC at the Ipswich launch of One Nation.
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