April 18 - 24, 2015
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Australian Fashion Week’s 20th anniversary
Two decades on, Australian Fashion Week shows for north and south.
The Quiz
Quotes
ANIMALS
“Crocodile has been removed from all menus at Palmer properties following today’s incident with a member of our Port Douglas golf course.”
The parliamentarian moves to address a crocodile attack at his resort. Presumably he removed all the bricks from his home after Glenn Lazarus turned on him.
LAW
“Running around the streets of Byron Bay with no clothes on, I don’t know why you would want a kebab at that time.”
The NSW deputy chief magistrate asks the serious questions of a law student arrested for public indecency in northern NSW. A conviction was not recorded.
WAR
“I’m not going to go into operational matters.”
The defence minister appears unable to name the leader of the Islamic State during an interview with Leigh Sales. The answer is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Some things you can’t learn at marriage counselling.
POETRY
“A mother’s love may be as great/ As any new vaccine.”
The cartoonist proves he understands as much about medicine as he does about wit. If only the World Health Organisation would realise polio is no match for the whimsy of a ill-drawn duck.
POLITICS
“I honestly never ask, ‘How can I change myself to be more appealing to people?’ ”
The “primed minister” tells men’s magazine GQ about how he gets up in the morning, for a cover story on the subject of naked ambition and his own perfectness.
REGRETS
“The scorpion stabs him … and the scorpion said, ‘I can’t help it. It’s my nature.’ ”
The ABC science commentator explains why he is like a frog in bad shirts and the Intergenerational Report he agreed to promote before realising it contained no serious mention of climate change is like a scorpion. Obviously.
