Canberra Report – Doddcasting

Parliament won’t be sitting this week. Which is good, cause we can all focus on rate rises, office sweeps, and silly hats.

And while Victorian’s get a day off tomorrow, the rest of the country will have to go to work and get drunk at lunchtime.

And while we’re on Victoria, the Premier may be going to the governor today to get the writs – but no one could give shit till after Cup Day.

The Opposition have already launched their first TV advert, claiming that the government make too many ads. Nothing could send this message like an ad.

And the reporting of the Victorian Campaign is all about campaigning. Will Brumby show ‘who he really is’? The ALP has a dirt unit, the Libs have racists candidates and the Greens have a lawyer, and no one likes lawyers.

While this is one of the most undergraduate campaigns in terms some of the tactics, I expect someone to deface their own posters at any moment.

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In Canberra, Ken Henry is looking at the COAG arrangements, or centralizing the power of the federal gov at the expense of the states. Gillard’s overseas, and Abbott’s back to doing what he does best, extreme endurance and shooting off at the mouth.

The Opposition are calling for royal commissions, and Spanish inquisitions into anything that’s testing well in focus groups.

‘Pink Batts’, claims Hunt, are the ‘greatest policy failure since the second world war’, which is odd, cause we totally won that War. Vietnam, Iraq, Khemlani Loans affair… Whatever.

For those travelling between Sydney and Melbourne, the high-speed rail feasibility study was announced over the weekend.

While this was Greens policy, which they took to the election, they’re response to the feasibility study included calls for trains between all of Australia’s major cities. And to make it tripatisan, Helen Coonan’s in the Age today supporting the fast trains. Expect Bernard Keane to say it’s stupid in Crikey today.

Qanda tonight is a WA special, with Stephen Smith, Julie Bishop and Twiggy Forrest on the panel. Tony Jones will continue to walk both sides of the street on the shoe throwing, claiming that it is both terrible, and a great way to sell the show.

And in terrible news, Krispy Kreme doughnuts are going broke. All they have to do is put everything on So You Think. Paying $3.30. Get on it people.