The popular redhead is back

The poor taste puns have received a wide outing this week, perhaps while some of the media are calling for apologies they could think about handing a few out themselves. Maintaining high indignance on behalf of those who have suffered while working on the punniest headline possible is one of the many fine skills our media professionals seem to possess in abundance.

Three different leaders in the three traditional media, Peter Garrett way ahead on radio, Tony Abbott’s sluggos still more palatable for telly while Kevin Rudd is left with that boring one with all the words and the occasional complex issue and stuff. If you think about it in three monkeys terms, that split would probably be most people’s preference.

David Bartlett jumps in to the list as the Tasmanian election campaign starts to get mildly serious, including the odd Federal Minister visiting, while John Faulkner and Anthony Albanese have been busy trying to ramp up the “doing stuff with big machines, not just talking” credibility of the Government.

More than a few callers (in fact around 40%) defending the Minister and in some cases installers defending foil insulation, clearly very keen to defend their easy income stream. That still leaves around 60% unfavourable, but given the circumstances enough for Peter Garrett to hang on?

There’s a more popular populist about, even a more popular redhead, so its time to go – or perhaps after seeing those British tabloid stories about ginger geordie kids being picked on, Pauline decided to go and see what it’s really like to be an immigrant discriminated against because of your appearance and accent.