From the Crikey grapevine, the latest tips and rumours …

Hanson Hands off. While it’s traditional for One Nation to rapidly fragment whenever it achieves a modicum of electoral success, the party this morning has set a new record — its new senator has left before even being sworn in. Hanson has, as per predictions last year, already lost a couple of senators; the replacement for Rothschilds conspiracy theorist Malcolm Roberts was Queenslander Fraser Anning, who for some time has made clear his enthusiasm for replacing Roberts. Anning — who won just 19 votes in the 2016 election — was due to be sworn in this morning as a new senator for Queensland. But trouble erupted when Anning — who according to an hilarious account by Hanson on her Facebook page had refused to even take her phone calls — this morning tried to attend a “party” meeting with people regarded as personae non gratae by Hanson. By parliamentary tradition, new senators-to-be are brought to the table by party colleagues to be sworn in. David Leyonhjelm and Cory Bernardi did the honours for Anning instead. La Hanson wasn’t even in the chamber for the swearing-in. Nice job where you’re paid $200,000 a year and don’t even bother to show up to your workplace. 

The path to success. The Senate voted in its new president this morning, with the Liberals’ Scott Ryan taking over from Stephen Parry who confirmed he was a dual citizen after referring six of his colleagues to the High Court over their own family histories. Ryan made it through the internal Liberal-National kerfuffle over who would get the job, and was voted in with 53 votes to 11 for the Greens’ Senator Peter Whish-Wilson. There was one invalid vote, which raises the question of which of our elected representatives couldn’t tick a box correctly, but a few of them were new so we’ll move on from speculating on who that was. Now to Ryan, whose pre-political history bears more than one resemblance to that of his counterpart in the other place — House of Representatives Speaker Tony Smith. Both Ryan and Smith are ex staffers at the Institute of Public Affairs, and were presidents of the University of Melbourne Liberal Club. An important difference though — while Smith is a rusted on supporter and longtime member of the Carlton Football Club, Ryan is an Essendon man. Wouldn’t want to get the two confused.

By any other name. It became emblematic of the endless stream of minor indignities and defeats that have beset Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull since he sauntered into the office: following a dressing down by new US president Donald Trump over the refugee resettlement deal struck between Australia and Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama, then White House press secretary Sean Spicer referred to him  (repeatedly) as “Trumble”. We’re on our second White House press secretary since Spicer left, and things are better, but … they could still improve. The official schedule for Trump at today’s East Asia summit shows they still can’t quite get Turnbull’s name right, this time referring to him as “Malcom Turnbull”.

Called it. Ms Tips has been watching with interest for some time the possibility that Alan Jones, he of “Lebanese grubs” and ” the old man died of shame” fame would be inducted into the Melbourne Press Club hall of fame now that it has expanded to include those outside Victoria. When we first followed this question up with the MPC, their CEO Mark Barker wasn’t saying yes, and certainly wasn’t saying no:  

“The Melbourne Press Club has chosen the first national inductees for the Australian Media Hall of Fame. About 50 of those late and living legends will be inducted at a dinner in Sydney in November. None of those living inductees has yet been advised of their selection and, obviously, we are not making any public comment about individuals who have or haven’t been selected as candidates until then.

“A key criterion for induction into the Media Hall of Fame is that the individual had a profound impact on their branch of the media. It is not a beauty contest or a form guide for sainthood. Many of the 81 foundation inductees of the Hall of Fame had highly controversial careers but all of them were pioneers or leaders in their fields – people who had a big impact on the evolution of Australian journalism.”

And we were on the money: over the weekend it was announced that Jones would join Ita Buttrose, Richie Benaud and over 50 other inductees in the Australian Media Hall of Fame.

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