The Australian, 27 October 2010

While the Iraqi journo who pinged his size tens at George W doesn’t quite stack up against that guy who blocked the tanks in Tiananmen Square, I think we can all agree his protest had a certain something. The only thing the hippy who flipped his Dunlop Volleys past the keeper for four byes during Q&A had going for him was an appropriate choice of footwear. Lucky he wasn’t protesting against Paul Keating, genuine imported Italian baby harp seal leather wingtips  don’t come cheap.

The Australian, 20 October 2010

I am all for finishing what we started, so the priority should probably be working out what exactly it is we’ve started in Afghanistan so that we could perhaps start to work out how we might at least start finishing it (whatever it might turn out to be).

Failing that (which we most certainly will) at the very least we should start to learn not to start something before we have some idea what it is we’re starting. That would be a good start.

The Australian, 20 October 2010

When that deep-green lentil-eating farmer-hating ETS-monger John Howard appears on Q&A next week he’s got a lot of explaining to do. Okay, I made up the bit about the lentils.

The Australian, 19 October 2010

Stopping kids being locked up behind razor wire is more important than “stopping the boats”. If that’s a “pull factor” then too bloody bad. That is all.