Canberra Reporting

Canberra Reporting…

I’ve heard people referring to our current political state in Canberra as one of ‘political limbo’.

The game where politicians bend over backwards to do everything in their power to get power.

A former leader, stabbed in the back, with at least a season to serve on his contract has been disposed in the middle of the night. So expect Essendon to veer to the right next season. And be plagued by a series of damaging leaks claiming James Hird never even supported parental leave.

Perhaps then they’ll have to negotiate with the independents. Like Mark ‘Choc’ Williams …

On twitter, excitement at the ‘kingmaker’ status of Bob Katter has salivated twits, with the hashtag ‘BobKatterFacts’ starting up.

‘I just slammed a revolving door’

‘Bob Katter doesn’t go to Canberra, he just walks on the spot and Canberra comes to him’.

There’s also Katter movies ‘He died with a banana in his hat’, ‘RoboKatter’ and ‘Fantastic Mr Katter’, ‘Kat on a hot tin roof’ and on it goes. With Katter the real is more ridiculous than the imagined as the ten punches her allegedly threw at someone on election night!

Wilkie has claimed to be the most independent claiming that the other independents are now a party.

Oakshot has claimed to be under attack from Rambo-style attacks from, wait for it, Alby Shultz. [insert photoshop of Alby Shultz's face on Rambo]

Both parties seem to have bit of a Samurai ‘fall on your sword’ approach to forming government. The ALP will honorably do whatever anyone wants, while the Coalition will honourably dishonour the people they need to form a coalition with.

It’s difficult to see who is likely to take government under these conditions.

The things the Independents want are also pretty funny, if you’re into that sort of thing. So there are calls for the procedural – like more questions in question time – and the massive – like redrawing the state boundaries and removing the revenue states get from pokies. Fun times ahead.

So while I am not sure when we will be officially calling these final seats, it seems like it has to be some time this week. Give us some government. How can we cope otherwise?

Qanda tonight has Jessica Rudd, who will once more serve to remind us of the ALP’s love of blood shedding.

Gillard is in the Press Club tomorrow, and Nicholas Stern will be there on Wednesday – which would be a great one to head along to as the National Press Club website is telling me that Wednesday is now ‘Seafood Wednesday’!

The cost of having seafood Wednesday at press club is certainly greater than the cost of not having seafood Wednesday.

While Canberra lies dormant, being in the Northern Territory last week – you’d have no idea. The best political story from the NT News was about an independent that was threatening to call a spill motion on himself.