Tony’s gone all Dirty Harry on the economy, and Julia’s sloganned right back at him. Essentially, it’s going to be a year of politicians shouting stuff about the economy at each other, a small proportion of which may bear some tangential relationship to reality. This however, is not an inditement of politicians, but merely an explanation of how economics works.

Okay, that was mean. Economists are good people doing a difficult job under trying circumstances etc and they have graphs to prove it.

Anyway, it looks like Tony and Joe have unsurprisingly got their numbers wrong right from the start (paywalled link). Personally, I blame their caterers.

Sometimes the news can serve you up a lovely opportunity for evil. In this case it was a story of a marina development being stalled by the infamous orange bellied parrot (paywalled link).

The Australian 9 February 2012

The Australian 7 February 2012

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The Australian 10 January 2012

Finally, Opposition spokeswoman Teresa Gambaro has cracked the age-old question of why we all can’t just get along, and the answer turns out to be deodorant. Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up.