So Clive Palmer is not coming to Canberra as a politician.
At John Hopkins University in the United States they estimate that a fall in the rate of male circumcision from a current 55% rate to Europe's 10% level would add an annual net $500 million to health care costs.
Julia Gillard's legal past might be the story at the top of the screen this morning but the Holden ute is the story at the top of people's minds.
An honorary professor from Sydney university recently called extending the school leaving age "keeping kids incarcerated" but in Tasmania the government seems undeterred.
One battle was won this week in the war against smoking but in the world-wide scheme of things it was a little one.
Among the welter of speeches on the dreadful boat people laws there is one that stamps the maker as truly an Honourable Member.
An interesting sidelight to the efforts of Julia Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden ...
What was once the party of compassion and humanity has abandoned its principles and now boasts that anything you can do we can do tougher.
It is not just a Labor Prime Minister they are keeping out of sight in the Northern Territory.
Andrew Tolson of De Montfort University, Leicester, has set out to find whether the concept of "neutralism" still applied to TV journalists during election campaigns or whether "conflict talk" or "confrontainment" now predominated.
