One of the speakers, TV host, former Collingwood club president and general dude-around-town Eddie McGuire<\/strong> tipped that Tuesday would indeed be the day many had been anticipating for some time. Eddie\u2019s remark, it must be said, was greeted with some cheering in the room.<\/p>\n News-breaker Eddie McGuire<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Getty Images<\/cite><\/p>\n We brought news a couple of weeks back of Eddie halting proceedings at Choi\u2019s restaurant in Hawthorn to regale dozens of diners with the news that Magpies defender Brayden Maynard<\/strong> had avoided suspension and was free to play in the club\u2019s preliminary final.<\/p>\n Looks like Eddie\u2019s rediscovered his old passion for the news business.<\/p>\n So, will Dan now \u201cget on the beers\u201d?<\/p>\n If he does, one of his political opponents, Liberal MP for Narracan Wayne Farnham<\/strong>, has the departing premier covered.<\/p>\n Farnham told us that he bumped into Andrews both before and after that final press conference at Parliament House on Tuesday, and although at pains to point out he would \u201cnever agree with what he\u2019s done to our state\u201d, Farnham was gracious enough to extend a parting gift to the departing leader.<\/p>\n \u201cI gave him one of my bottle openers, because I had one in my pocket\u201d he told CBD. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018All the best. This can open your first beer.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n Disgraced former Labor faction man Adem Somyurek<\/b> was never known as a music enthusiast or humorist \u2013 his passions, famously, lay elsewhere \u2013 but the former Andrews government minister, who was sacked twice by the man himself, had a memorable contribution to the online reaction to Tuesday\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n Somyurek, who is still somehow a member of parliament, posted the video on Elon Musk\u2019s<\/b> X website (formerly Twitter) of Elton John\u2019s<\/b>1983 hit I\u2019m still Standing<\/i> \u2013 geddit?<\/p>\n But in fairness, who would have bet as the huge branch-stacking scandal forced Somyurek out of cabinet and the Labor Party in mid-2020, that his parliamentary career could outlast Andrews\u2019?<\/p>\n Taking a break from Dan for a moment, former federal parliamentary speaker Bronwyn Bishop\u2019s<\/strong> political career never recovered from the revelations she billed taxpayers for a $5227 helicopter ride to a Liberal Party fundraiser.<\/p>\n But from the ashes of the Choppergate scandal, the party veteran has reinvented herself as a firebrand conservative pundit, recently going viral with her attacks on the Voice to parliament.<\/p>\n It\u2019s this career move that has taken Bronnie to some rather strange places.<\/p>\n Next week, she\u2019s set to front an online event hosted by Pat Mesiti<\/strong>, a former Hillsong minister (booted from the church after getting caught paying prostitutes) and self-confessed sex addict turned prosperity gospel life coach.<\/p>\n Bronwyn Bishop<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Brendon Thorne\/ Getty<\/cite><\/p>\n Now, Mesiti may no longer be a Hillsonger, but his penchant for fire and brimstone remains, with an event description billing Bronnie\u2019s words of wisdom as a lifeline for Australians living through seemingly apocalyptic times.<\/p>\n \u201cAustralia is under siege and its people are being sacrificed,\u201d the preacher-cum-mindset guru wrote. It\u2019s a conclusion he says he\u2019s come to by simply following his own research.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are seeing the total destruction of Australia. What is happening is straight from George Orwell\u2019s<\/strong> 1984<\/em>,\u201d Mesiti writes.<\/p>\n Thank god for Bishop, who will apparently reveal her thoughts on \u201cAustralia\u2019s future and economy, [and how] you can safeguard your wealth in these trying times\u201d, plus some things she can\u2019t discuss in the mainstream media.<\/p>\n It\u2019s free, if you\u2019re interested.<\/p>\n When you\u2019ve got one of Australia\u2019s most recognisable, and provocative, political brands you\u2019d be smart to let it hang out there at every opportunity, right?<\/p>\n So it made perfect sense back in 2015 for Pauline Hanson<\/b>\u2019s One Nation to put its founder and most recognisable asset front and centre in the party\u2019s name as it rebooted itself. <\/p>\n Trouble was, electoral authorities around the country took immediately to using the double take-inducing abbreviation PHON to identify One Nation candidates on ballots and the like. PHON, hardly electoral dynamite, right?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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