The Australian has a story on the Rudd family putting their alternate Lodge in Yarralumla onto the market in the lead up to the September election.
Not a bad time to be getting out of the local market perhaps?

Another month another Mully Cup winner. The Mully Cup is awarded monthly to the entity stimulating the most comment on this website. It is named in memory (if not in honour) of Justin Mully Williams who both improved our world, and set the record for comments, in his departure.
This month we have decided to award [...]

The Monthly has a lengthy piece by the entertainer Rhys Muldoon on the demise of Kevin Rudd.
Once you get over the initial surprise at just how close to the inner wheel Muldoon was rotating it’s a pretty good look at how life on the hill works, and worked that fateful night.

The number have leaked and Julia Gillard remains PM by a heavy 71-31 margin.
This will relieve many in the public service as the reshuffle will be considerably smaller than if bloodletting Ruddites were running riot.
UPDATE 27/02/12 11:19: Initial reports had the margin at73-29, that has now been rectified.

Crikey have got a good take on Kevin Rudd’s dramatic 1am (Washington time) resignation as Foreign Minister and the brutal kicking of a speech he delivered to the Prime Minister.
It’s hard not to see some pretty major reshuffling of cabinet when all this is over and a fair chance of an election in the very [...]

One would like to think the Shadow Treasurer of this nation would be a busy man.
But it seems Joe Hockey had nothing better to do yesterday than take a cardboard cutout of Kevin Rudd around town (pretty much all Inner South we note), take photographs, and tweet.

Here’s the full tour:

Anyone amused?

[ 24 June, 2011; 12:00 pm; ]

As seen in Civic today.

It seems some wags are holding a memorial service for Kevin Rudd this Friday noon on Federation Mall (aka the Parliamentary Protest area).

Who would do such a thing? What do you think?

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For most of us we just have to live with the fact that a google car has been past our house taking photos. Here at RiotACT we support the right of anyone to take photos from public lands.
But a keen eyed reader has noted that there’s a weird gap at Mueller St Yarralumla [...]

As we appear to be lurching to a new Prime Minister tonight here’s a question.
In January Chris Uhlman wrote an intriguing piece on the relationship between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
Buried deep in the story was this ear twitcher:
One of the most intriguing also has a tangential relationship to the Embassy Motel, because [...]

Lismore’s Northern Star newspaper is very excited Therese Rein has installed a chicken tractor in The Lodge’s austerity (and Obama) inspired vegetable garden.
It seems the chicken tractor (a pen on wheels which can be moved around the garden to let the chickens harrow, weed and fertilise) is an invention of Kyogle’s Linda Woodrow. The photo [...]

Me? Me I got totally screwed over by the probabilistic crapstorm of the untrustworthy failure mass I call my friendship group.
But before everything went to crap I managed to send the Kelpie of Few Accomplishments outside the failure zone to the undiscovered country where people actually do what they say they will.
In so doing I [...]

ANU is proudly announcing that the nice Mr Rudd is funding a new research school:
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd this afternoon announced that the Commonwealth will fund the Australian Centre on China in the World to be based at ANU. He did so while delivering the 70th George E Morrison Lecture at ANU this afternoon.
The [...]

The Chiefly Stanhope has improved his chances of becoming Ambassador Stanhope by signing us all up to Kevin’s back of the envelope health plan.
Canberra’s public hospitals will be better off by around $150 million over the next decade, with Chief Minister Jon Stanhope today announcing he would sign up to the Prime Minister’s health [...]

Reading the ABC story School puts the ban in banana, I had thought April Fools day had come twice this year. Yesterday press were invited to report on Kevin Rudd listening to student’s environmental concerns at O’Connor Cooperative School, and apparently the invite included a warning for members of the press not to attend if [...]

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The Australian brings word that The Chaser team have caused umbrage again, this time here in Canberra.
Chaser comedian Julian Morrow, who is also the program’s executive producer, was stopped by Australian Federal Police officers when he arrived at St John’s Anglican Church in full mountaineering gear and attempted to [...]

[First filed: November 11, 2008 @ 12:32]

As the 90th anniversary of the end of most of the fighting in the first World War, today was always going to be a big day.
That the entire military and political leadership of the country (absent the GG sent to France for the day) camped out in the open [...]

Has anybody had much experience relating to the APS budget cuts the Federal Government pushed through with the last budget?
Just curious as to how the cuts have affected the lives of ACT residents over the last several months…

Has anyone been affected by the fine tooth comb of Peter Gershon yet?
I understand that he is looking at the inner workings of the Federal Government very closely, and is due to release a report on his findings very soon. Are there any departments starting to sweat yet?
From my industry perspective, we have seen a [...]

According to footage on “Insiders” on ABC this morning, Kevin Rudd’s staff are using the AFP as ‘goons’ to keep the press away, and herding them around in a most undemocratic manner. The footage shows an AFP officer threatening to block the Channel 10 camera “all day”. Add to that an account, again on Insiders, [...]

The SMH is reporting that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has stated that “If any protesters, irrespective of their political point of view, engage in unruly, disorderly or violent behaviour, then the police will come down on them like a ton of bricks,”
ACT Chief Apologist Jon Stanhope also commented “It’s quite a blow to the [...]

Canberra has been especially warned by Treasurer Wayne Swan to expect “pain” in his first budget, to be brought down in less than six weeks.
Neither Mr Swan nor acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard offered any comfort yesterday for tens of thousands of public servants who have been on notice for months of substantial job losses [...]

Anyone else heard about public servants being asked to ‘volunteer’ to work at Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Summit in April. Apparently, some departments are asking for volunteer scribes and PR people to work throughout the weekend. Yes, the government that is cutting your budgets now wants you to offer up a weekend to jot down the [...]

A few years ago I performed a job for a federal government department and took note that everyone had been directed via an edict from John Howard that all written use of the word program was to be spelt “programme”.
Today I’ve just been informed that everyone has been directed via an edict from Kevin [...]

ABC Online: NCA cuts 30 jobs
More than 30 jobs have been slashed from the National Capital Authority (NCA) under the Rudd Government’s proposal to slash the federal bureaucracy…
ABC Online: PM to continue public service cuts despite $3b windfall
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says a $3 billion windfall inherited from the Howard government will not stop his [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that PM Rudd has taken his new Cabinet out into the field for a community cabinet meeting.
When I was a councillor on the Sunshine Coast, we started holding council meetings in different towns around the Shire, taking community feedback as part of the process.
Then when my colleague Cr Peter [...]