I know one ute is causing so much ruckus in Australia's political landscape, but spare a thought for what goes on in North Korea that passes for news.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has put his youngest son in charge of the country's spy agency in a move aimed at handing the communist regime over to him, a news report said.
Kim visited the headquarters of the State Security Department in March, along with his 26-year-old third son, Kim Jong Un, and told agency leaders to "uphold" the son as head of the department, the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing an unnamed source.
Kim also told department leaders to "safeguard comrade Kim Jong Un with (your) lives as you did for me in the past," and gave them five foreign-made cars, each worth some $US80,000 ($A100,743), as gifts, the mass-market daily said.
Just in case you thought our politics in this country had hit rock bottom, I thought you should know that there is much earth and many layers of hell beneath that bottom of the barrel.
Who Is Godwin Grech
Yes, who is this weasely wretch, an ill-omen-ed fetch from the horrors most eldretch!
Here's a sketch:
He likes advising younger colleagues on how to advance their careers, although some of his interlocutors regarded him as a little on the paternalistic side.
Mr Grech has spent most of his career in Treasury, the elite Canberra department that prides itself on the intellectual rigour of its analysis. He wears his economically rationalist heart on his sleeve, describing himself as a "believer in the positive power of the market".
In the late 1990s Mr Grech had executive assignments in Treasury's markets group dealing with financial institutions and systems and with competition and market access policy.
By 2003 he had risen to the senior position of general manager of Treasury's competition and consumer policy division, according to Hansard records. The position put him just two levels below the Treasury secretary in the department's organisational structure, but he held it for just a few months.
By early 2005 he had moved to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, working for three years in effect in a level below his position at Treasury.
After the change of government in 2007 Mr Grech may have spent a lot of time responding to requests for briefs from one Andrew Charlton in the Prime Minister's office, an economist more than 10 years the public servant's junior.
In the early months of the Labor Government Dr Charlton was Mr Rudd's adviser on employment, business conditions, competition and consumer affairs. In a strange twist, the concocted email that has now involved Mr Grech was supposed to have been written by Dr Charlton.
Then, in June last year, Mr Grech was offered a position as a policy director in a strategic policy division set up for the Prime Minister.
A couple of months after that sideways shift, Mr Grech returned to Treasury as a principal adviser in its financial systems division.
Late last year he was given the huge project of pulling together the Government's emergency response to the crisis in motor dealer finance. It was that assignment that inextricably involved him in the Ozcar affair.
Sounds like a careerist conservative weasel. Why is it that these rogue apparatchiks always find their way into the breach? It's a mystery isn't it? And what was the faked e-mail doing on his computer - and nowhere else legitimate in the system? Why, he'd fit right in in North Korea.
How Now Mr. Turnbull?
As I pointed out yesterday, I think it best if he turned bear and fled. The only reason he will still be Leader of the Opposition next month would be because the Libs have nobody better.
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