Huntin’, shootin’, fishin’, loggin’. Grassy, and old growth, knoll types are crying foul over the appointment of Evan Rolley, the recently retired CEO of Forestry Tasmania, who has been made head of the Tasmanian Premier’s Department. Schooner pig Premier Paul Lennon just does not get it. It’s hard to perceive his appointment policies other than jobs being handed around a small clique of huntin’, shootin’, fishin’, loggin’. More jobs for the same old boys.

Who’s Pedro? Now available: Napoleon Dynamite-style Vote for Kevin t-shirts.

Who’s John Howard? The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Malcolm Turnbull has distributed an election brochure in Wentworth that doesn’t mention the PM or the Liberal Party once. Crikey hears that Joe Hockey has done the same across the Harbour in his seat of North Sydney, and in Sturt, in South Australia, another minister, Chris Pyne, has billboards up that don’t mention his affiliations.

 

Recycled campaigning. The Labor candidate for NSW south coast seat of Gilmore, Neil Reilly, has opened a campaign office in Kiama – the same location used by local state MP Matt Brown in the March campaign. Sitting MP Joanna Gash, meanwhile, is understood to have engaged state candidate Ann Sudmalis as her campaign manager.

Stranded high and dry. There’s an art exhibition running on the Strand at the waterfront in Townsville in the marginal seat of Herbert. One of the more eye-catching exhibits is the inconvenient truth entry. It shows the height up a palm tree that John Howard will have to climb to get away from the rising sea levels.

 

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