Her abrupt ascendancy to the top of the political pile was ground-breaking but is Julia Gillard really what we’ve been waiting for: Australia’s first foreign-born, unmarried, atheist, ranga, female prime minister?

Often the most dangerous thing a politician can do is appear on television. In the lead up to an election, televisual humiliation for the vote-hungry baby-huggers will be widescreen and in HD.

Kevin Rudd's proposal to sell all cigarette brands in plain packets looks like bad news for Big Tobacco, since smokers will no longer be able to identify varieties by colour. But there are possible loopholes, too.

The Enthusiast's editors blather about the relaunched Baby-sitters Club, Warren Beatty's penis, pirated TV shows, the "body debate", the Darwin Awards, and interview award-winning author Steven Conte.

On Friday, Kevin Rudd's wife Thérèse Rein will invite the crew of Channel Seven's Better Homes and Gardens into the prime ministerial residence, the Lodge. Does she reckon she's Jackie Kennedy or something?

Sunrise will spruce up its new set with a tasteful little addition: the Australian Prime Minister.

Max Gillies performs as many of our most lauded and laughable politicos in Guy Rundle's Godzone. It's as sour and zesty and refreshing as a lemon tart at a regional bakery photo-op.

In the funniest Andrew Olle Media Lecture so far, The Chaser's executive producer Julian Morrow chastises media outlets who let themselves be bullied by the outrage of the wrong audience.

Australia's most lovable old crank Bob Ellis is mad as hell and he isn't going to take it any more. He rallies the troops with some bizarre battle plans in The Capitalism Delusion.