The Goanna
The Goanna scuttles through the undergrowth, across deserts and claws his way up handy trees finding tasty morsels. The Goanna's eyes are sharp, his hearing acute and his tongue tastes the breeze. Wherever secrets lurk, he'll endeavour to flush them out. And then he delivers them to the National Times for your delectation. Here is one handy reptile cruising the halls of Parliament House and beyond.
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Political parallel universes
The Goanna Why are we waiting? Independents baiting Parties remonstrating Why are we waiting Greens celebrating Coalition agitating Democracy re-arranging Why are we waiting? So bloody long . . .
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Our Twitter election
The Goanna This election has been called frustrating, spin-full and certainly underwhelming. Fair call says Goanna.
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Sex v God. Or, you couldn't make this stuff up
The Goanna A lot of political junkies have been hanging out for a second hit of election debate. We just might get it now, with Julia revealing she's keen for another televised bust up.
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Take over of the fake Julias
The Goanna Impersonating politicians has long been apart of the Australian political landscape. In fact there is a veritable industry of ''fakes''.
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Please, Julia - stop moving forward!
The Goanna Dear Julia (Goolia) Gillard, I'm not sure why I might be writing this to you. I guess I just don't have the heart to let you keep going as you are, walking head first into a stinker of a political...
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Does anyone still want to go barefoot bowling with Kev?
The Goanna Many politics nerds will now be looking at the series of events that led up to one of the more remarkable coups in recent Australian political memory, trying to dissect the past to a subatomic level.
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As future leaders go, not much to rejoice about
The Goanna A Facebook event was created recently by a member of the Young Liberal National Party celebrating the 93rd birthday of former prime minister Gough Whitlam.
Bella Counihan
'Illegals' to cure coalition headaches?
The Goanna Almost as predictable as US anti-gay activist George Rekkers being caught with a male escort from rentboy.
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Yummy. Combet bites hard, swallows
The Goanna The art of politics sometimes involves eating an extremely malodorous sandwich and making it look palatable.
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No messiah, but a light scourging
The Goanna 'Jesus,' declared Tony Abbott, 'wouldn't have put up his hand to lead the Liberal Party.'
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The gentlemanly business of politics
The Goanna THE venerable English cricket captain, W.G. Grace, is supposed to have said about the toss of the coin: “When you win the toss, usually you bat. If you are in doubt, you think about it, and then bat.
Tony Wright
Upside-down, inside-out parliament wonderland
The Goanna Lewis Carroll could hardly have dreamt up the sort of marvellous hallucination that is consuming the federal parliament.
Tony Wright
Crisis control in crisis as Rudd falters over fall guys
The Goanna Kevin Rudd has finally been through all the old Paul Keating and John Howard chapters on crisis management and, being Kevin, has opted for caution.
Put the art back into politics, Garrett
The Goanna Peter Garrett is a man under pressure. Everybody knows that. But when you start to speak like the Ruddbot, as our PM is so affectionately termed, then I think you're in real trouble.
Rudd's bloodied meat an anaemic meatloaf
The Goanna Paul Keating had a typically gory recipe for those times when his government got itself into headline-grabbing strife.
A desperate man finds help in a streetfighter
The Goanna Anthony Albanese is the Rudd government's street fighter. He's got a lot of unexpected moves and he used one of them to rescue Peter Garrett yesterday.
Hanson in the USA
The Goanna Pauline Hanson was going. Then she was staying. Then, according to her real estate agent, she was going to the UK just for a holiday, stating "she does not want to become a Pom".
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Worker's mate has a day on the piste with Kerry
The Goanna The streets of Beaver Creek, Colorado, favoured haunt of Kerry Stokes and his mates, may not actually be paved with gold.
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Is Pauline really ready for today's multicultural Britain?
The Goanna We're not sure whether Britain is quite ready for Pauline Hanson…but then, we're not entirely sure whether Ms Hanson is quite ready for today's Britain, either.
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Kevin's Q & A with the animals
The Goanna As the sun rose over the jungle a quiet stirring was to be found. In a clearing, a gathering of young animals waited patiently for the king of the jungle, Kevin the Lion, to arrive.
