The ALP’s ads this week featuring the woman in the kitchen have nailed the message of the campaign, writes Adam Kilgour.
Awkward
Telly watch: a love affair with Home and Away
If you don’t like soap, though, then Home and Away has nothing for you. But if there beats in your heart just the slightest yearning for some high emotion, a bit of romance, or a good meaty death, then forget your shame, writes Peter Mattessi.
Hardy: The PM says 18 more months, Costello must be livid
My, what a magnificent moment yesterday afternoon must have been for Peter Costello, writes Marieke Hardy.
MacCormack: John Howard can’t help himself, can he?
Howard was smart to say sorry on Wednesday. It may not have gained him a single extra vote, but it suggested he was aware of having dudded Australians in 2004. But in offering one of his trademark dips into the dictionary, he undid all that in an instant, David MacCormack.
Vanessa who? The candidate the Libs keep forgetting
The PM had a Beazley moment — Rove who? — this morning, making an awkward start to his whistle-stop tour of Tasmania. In Launceston he forgot the name of the Liberal candidate for the seat of Franklin in the state’s south-east.
