The national smoke night known as the Midwinter Ball has been rumbled. Of course, you and I can’t go, not without creating a scene anyway, but we did manage to get a glimpse of the frivolity from a ‘leaked’ video shot on one of the more than 600 smartphones in the Great Hall of Parliament House.
With that many phones with functioning cameras, I doubt we can actually call it a leak as the clip had better production values than you might see on Channel Ten at the moment.
There is no truth in the rumour that Malcolm Turnbull clambered back on stage for an encore, ate at a vase full of flowers and sung the first two verses of Eskimo Nell for even more hilarity. And I am yet to establish if, in the latter part of the evening, they got the Crown and Anchor board out and those assembled opened their wallets and went hard.
Maybe my bandwidth is a bit on the slow side (thanks Malcolm), because by the time I got the video to play, all the good jokes might have been lost in the buffering – but in this morning’s spin on what may one day become known as the real death of vaudeville, the Prime Minister’s colleagues emerged to declare him the new King of Comedy… and not in the bad Rupert Pupkin way.
Full column here.
In tune with your previous blog, you should see the spinning being done about the Georgia 6th.
Just wrote about it. Should be up soon.
Nate Silver six days ago:
Nate Silver @NateSilver538
Replying to @ForecasterEnten
It means there’s a 70% chance Ossoff wins and a 30% chance that MATH IS DEAD AND DATA IS BROKEN.
I’ve completely given up on Silver. Just glad I don’t punt on his baseball and football forecasts.
Oh my. The market is saying coal CANNOT compete on price. Are the coalition and its supporters for markets or against them?? We know the Nationals Australian Socialist Isolationist party (NASI for short) is against the market.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/coal-cant-compete-with-renewables-agl-chief-andy-vesey/news-story/8f488b5adbf61735ea85e01c267aad36
AGL has massive investments in wind particularly and solar. Where does the baseload power come from?
I read that a transgender couple from Sydney are seeking asylum and a warmer reception in Iceland! Is the Mardi Gras a mere façade?
And on Jack’s recommendation I read Birmingham’s article on the death of his father. A wonderful tribute.
With the horrific death of Otto Warmbier I’m wondering if my 1976 visit to East Germany was the lark I thought it was.
Certainly it seems a few dissidents in East Germany might have been irradiated to the point of dying prematurely of weird cancers, from what I’ve read (Rudolf Bahro, etc.)