Kevin Rudd wants to be Secretary General of the UN. To run for that office he needs the backing of the Australian Government and of course, it's nominally a Coalition Government. And of course they're split over that choice of whether to back Rudd or not.
But the possibility of the former Labor leader achieving these new-found heights has attracted scorn from Liberal figures, including firebrand senator Cory Bernardi, South Australian MP Tony Pasin and, in the past, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.
Mr Pasin, who said in April that "this guy did his best to ruin our country" and shouldn't be imposed on the world, said on Tuesday he still has serious reservations.
"We shouldn't nominate him because to nominate him is to provide tacit support for his candidacy and I don't think we should do that," Mr Pasin told Fairfax Media.
Yeesh. It's the usual cabal of hateful cunts like Bernardi and Dutton objecting. Don't you love that bit of tautology in Pisan's comment to Fairfax Media? Goodness, the depth of dimwitted-ness seems to know no bounds with the coalition's hard right.
Pauline's Got A Score To Settle With Little Johnny
Politics is going to be weirder than ever in this coming Parliament. The Libs with their reduced majority added to the increased contrariness of the new cross benchers in the Senate would make for some interesting blogging.
Pauline Hanson of course headlines the monster cast of weird dumb and ignorant; and before the parliament's even sat down, she's slinging mud at the legacy of John Howard.
Queensland senator-elect Pauline Hanson has fought back tears recounting her 2003 jailing over quashed political corruption charges, blaming Tony Abbott and John Howard for a "political witch-hunt" against her.
Following her resurgence at the July 2 election, a new SBS documentary about the 1990s rise and fall of One Nation has been brought forward for broadcast later this month.
Ms Hanson promises her maiden speech in the Senate will be just as controversial as her explosive 1996 parliamentary debut, in which she said Australia was at risk of being swamped by Asians.
The film, directed Anna Broinowski, explores One Nation's impact on multiculturalism in Australia and includes interviews with Mr Howard, incoming Labor federal MP Linda Burney and Indigenous leader and academic Marcia Langton.
Good ole' Anna Broinowski. Don't think she's ever seen a controversy she wouldn't court.
Choice! The fun is just beginning. Grab some popcorn and pull up a deck chair. This sucker hit the iceberg a lo-o-ong time ago and there's no life boat for you or I.
The Third Man Strikes Again
This is kind of wild, like throwback right to that movie starting Orson Welles.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday called for calm after revelations that four criminal syndicates have allegedly been producing counterfeit vaccines throughout Jakarta and Java for up to 13 years.
Police have named 14 hospitals and eight midwife clinics which allegedly administered the bogus boosters, creating havoc as angry parents flocked to the facilities.
Although corruption is endemic in Indonesia, a scam that knowingly put the lives of infants at risk has caused widespread anger and disbelief. "Producing false vaccines is a crime against humanity," thundered an editorial in Tempo magazine.That's some pretty amazing kind of criminality right there. I mean like the man Harry Lime says, "five hundred years of peace and what did the Swiss produce? Cuckoo clocks. So long, Holly."
The Strangeness Of Celebrity-hood
God, this Kanye West Taylor Swift saga sure keeps going doesn't it?
I'll be honest, I've never sat through a single song by either one of these people who have amassed multiple Grammys between them, which in a weird way has dismantled any kind of residual respect I had for the said awards because, well, I'm an old fart and at least what Kanye' peddling isn't exactly music while what Taylor's peddling is bland as lo-fat yoghurt watered down. Anyway, things get more trashy with the Kardashian woman being Kanye's wife and all; and somewhere in there is a line of exes being artistically skewered by Taylor Swift in her lyrics; and not heeding those cries Tom Hiddleston is doing Tay-tay which may be true love and not just a publicity stunt, but far more likely just a future double album for Tay-tay. Yay!
Kim Kardashian West gave the FBI, the CIA and the illuminati a run for their money when she delivered on her promise by providing evidence that America's sweetheart and media manipulator extraordinaire, Taylor Swift, knew about Kanye West's infamousFamous lyrics.
Kardashian West set the internet ablaze when she revealed her greatest home video to date - the possibly illegally taped conversation between West, 39, and Swift, 26.
Not satisfied with dismantling Swift's public image, Kardashian West, 35, decided to keep on trolling the Shake It Off singer, along with three of her adult sisters. (Their youngest sibling, Kylie Jenner, 18, had the sense to sit this one out, instead using the media scrutiny on the family to promote her beauty range, like the good little capitalist that Kris Jenner has reared.)
While Team Kardashian-West had ammunition on their side, Team Swift were not going down without a fight.
Swift's squad of besties, namely singer Selena Gomez, actor Chloe Moretz and Australian actor Ruby Rose, rallied and jumped on social media to support their leader (and definitely not because it was the biggest story of the day and it would send some publicity their way).
Life's good, right? I mean what more do we need in life but this kind of gossip?
Look, Taylor Swift says the video of her giving approval to Kanye West to write lyrics about her amounts to "character assassination". For that term to work, you need to have 'character' in the first place.
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