After five Prime Minister’s in eight years – are we really back here? We can’t guarantee that we’re 100 per cent sure who the Prime Minister is right now, but on Tuesday Peter Dutton challenged Malcolm Turnbull for the Prime Ministership. Suddenly it is 2012 all over again. What the heck is going on in Canberra? We get Sharri Markson, the National Political Editor of the Daily Telegraph to explain.
Plus, Madonna is 60 – and there seems to be a real generational divide about who cares. Which begs the question, is she still relevant?
And Jacinda Ardern turned down a pay rise and the Minister for Women in New Zealand rode a bike to the hospital to give birth – so why do the Kiwis get all the cool politicians?
The End Bits
Hosts: Holly Wainwright, Jessie Stephens and Mia Freedman
With thanks to Sharri Markson.
Producer: Elissa Ratliff
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Top Comments
At time when fuel prices are plumetting and interest rates are at 50-year lows, consumer confidence should be soaring. But we are stuck with a government that keeps telling us the good times are over and we all have to suffer the consequences.
Economic recovery was virtually assured until these guys started spreading their messages of gloom and doom and threatening average families with penalties at every turn.
Abbott and Hockey have to go.
#SirLostThePlot
You obviously don't live in South Australia. We have the highest mainland unemployment, highest electricity and water prices. The State Government is so much debt, spending money in anticipation of projected income it never received. Industries are closing down and/or leaving the state. The public service is the largest employer with wages paid from borrowed money. This state is rapidly resembling Greece and is an economic basketcase.
The Liberal party could not give Labour more grief about swapping leaders mid-term. I don't like Tony Abbott (Does anyone??) but would be greatly disappointed if Liberal didn't see him out his term.