Penny Wong’s back! Hu and Obama may yet stitch a deal! The global socialist conspiracy formerly known as climate change has yet again struggled to prominence now that 78 folk have shuffled off a boat in Sumatra, with a tiny amount of debate over whether an ETS is the best CO2 reduction method still drowned out by bluster on both sides and those who think it’s all an L.Ron Hubbard novel.

These figures closed off yesterday, so Nick Xenophon doesn’t feature — but he’s fixed that for next week. Lindsay Tanner the other major upward mover, clearly trying to appeal to his Greens-threatened inner city Melbourne electorate by backing a doubling of the population … and they said he was the clever one…

NSW talkback callers didn’t care too much about Joe Tripodi losing his deckchair but Anna Bligh remains under a fair bit of pressure in the protected state.

Rank Politician Talkback
1 Kevin Rudd 512
2 Anna Bligh 198
3 Malcolm Turnbull 134
4 Peter Garrett 129
5 John Brumby 64

You mean its possible some people may be entertained by Britney for reasons other than her pitch perfect high Cs? Well pass me my crotchless undies and call me white trash, what a shock.

Press Radio TV Internet Total INDEX
Britney Spears 74 43 327 295 2,983 185

There’s more on the Media Monitors website.