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Stick to hairdressing

After attending an AFL clash at the MCG as a guest of the Richmond Football Club, Mr Mathieson emailed its chief executive, Brendon Gale, copying in the Prime Minister’s office, to complain about the Opposition Leader’s access to the team’s inner sanctum and his prominent seating at a pre-game function.
Mr Mathieson demanded that Mr Gale raise the matter with the Prime Minister’s chief of staff, Ben Hubbard.

Really? This is why political spouses should be seen and not heard.

Written by Sinclair Davidson

March 9th, 2013 at 12:28 am

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And anyway, what’s with this “First Bloke” rubbish? She’s PM, not President; and they aren’t married. He’s a non-entity Gillard uses as a prop to demonstrate she’s hetero, even if a bit indiscriminate.
Cato the Elder
9 Mar 13 at 12:37 am
He should pay his debts
Tiny Dancer
9 Mar 13 at 12:44 am
This is why political spouses should be seen and not heard.
The house brick is not a ‘spouse’, it barely qualifies as a pet rock.
Could these mongrels be any more z-grade if they tried?
Rabz
9 Mar 13 at 12:45 am
Honestly! has there ever been a more bogan couple in the Lodge than these two? And they go overseas and meet important people from other nations, in our name. The embarrassment of it all.
Gab
9 Mar 13 at 12:46 am
Heh. Unless he has another twitter account…this one was stopped in 2011…for obvious reasons.
https://twitter.com/1stbloke
Gab
9 Mar 13 at 12:51 am
He actually isn’t a hairdresser.
I understand he’s a mousse salesman.
C.L.
9 Mar 13 at 12:51 am
Dim Mathieson ‏@1stbloke
dumm as dogshit!
Rabz
9 Mar 13 at 12:54 am
I’m gobsmacked. By what virtue then is Mathieson admitted to such areas?
Nic
9 Mar 13 at 1:13 am
Why oh why did the eastern states inflict on Australia the KRudd in 2007 and then this excruciatingly embarrassing pair in 2010?
Ubique
9 Mar 13 at 1:17 am
Fuck me. Timmy should have to take one finger up the Aliice hole from each player.
Skuter
9 Mar 13 at 1:35 am
Nah. I’m smashed. This ain’t happening. Where is Johnny comnenus? I’m fucking dreaming…
Skuter
9 Mar 13 at 1:37 am
Someone’s hammered.
sdfc
9 Mar 13 at 1:43 am
Skuter!!!! Being a bit harsh.
Sinclair Davidson
9 Mar 13 at 1:44 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG4janHITY8
sdfc
9 Mar 13 at 1:44 am
“Richmond has accommodated Mr Mathieson’s requests for tickets, hospitality and memorabilia since his move into The Lodge.”
So, exactly who paid for those tickets, hospitality and memorabilia?
If they were gifts were they declared? Or do only spouses have do do that, not shackup partners?
Zatara
9 Mar 13 at 3:06 am
Ideas well beyond his station in life just like “she who must be obeyed”.
Lowlifes who love throwing their weight around who are about to get their comeuppance.
honeybadger
9 Mar 13 at 6:38 am
I’m laughing too hard to think of anything clever to say.
sdog
9 Mar 13 at 6:43 am
Mr Mathieson has a habit of firing off emails and texts to Ms Gillard’s personal staff when he senses a perceived injustice.
Don’t they understand it’s his gravy train?
lotocoti
9 Mar 13 at 7:23 am
“Richmond has accommodated Mr Mathieson’s requests for tickets, hospitality and memorabilia since his move into The Lodge.”
A curious turn of phrase; and no mention of any payment for those benefits.
Brett
9 Mar 13 at 7:41 am
“Australia has accommodated Ms Gillard’s requests for tickets, hospitality and memorabilia since her move into The Lodge.”
Pickles
9 Mar 13 at 7:50 am
There’s another piece in the Oz today that’s quite good too.
Last year he was photographed in a black jacket with the words “First Bloke” embroidered in red stitching. [...] “Don’t you know who I am?I’m the Prime Minister’s partner,” he spluttered to the gatekeeper who queried his admission through the VIP entry to Manuka Oval on May 12 last year. “Don’t you know who I am” is a refrain that has punctuated several Mathieson sightings when he’s been stopped in his tracks or stuck in officialdom’s hoops.
…
sdog
9 Mar 13 at 8:03 am
More from that link:
His son Kane, 32, who works in construction on the Gold Coast, can’t believe his luck. According to a Cricket Australia official, Mathieson asks to visit the change rooms before the cricket. “He’s requested to go down a couple of times. Once with his son. It’s a very protected space. Only when he’s been with the PM have we met those requests.”
“Money can’t buy this kind of access,” says one football official. “Joe Blow does not get to shake [Richmond player] Jack Riewoldt’s hand. Tim has not been backward in seeking these privileges.” Male visitors to The Lodge say Mathieson often marches them straight up the stairs to the “pool room” where an “entire wall” is covered in sporting memorabilia. Gifts include a signed bat from Cricket Australia, a Richmond footy jumper, a Wallabies tracksuit top and windbreaker, and two New York Giants jerseys. At the Prime Minister’s XI in January he took home a signed hat and a cricket shirt presented to the first couple with their names emblazoned on the back.
Good grief.
sdog
9 Mar 13 at 8:12 am
straight to the pool room.
duncanm
9 Mar 13 at 8:15 am
The idiotic timbo is using his second rate stature in life like a mob stand over man. ” If u don’t give me that you’ll get no favours from my boss”. What a lowlife.
Tom
9 Mar 13 at 8:26 am
“Don’t you know who I am?” Yes we do. We just dont want you here.
johninoxley
9 Mar 13 at 8:32 am
His fiery outburst occurred on a Sunday evening after the Dreamtime AFL match between Essendon and Richmond on May 19 last year…
“Mate u need to speak with Ben Hubbard on why abboott was taken down to the rooms … “ Mr Mathieson fumed. “ … it’s just not on Who authorised it < it was a shocker it was a Don's function and he should not have gone down there
Do you know who I am?
Yes.
You’re a filthy freeloading grub and you and lard-arse make a perfect couple.
What a trumped up piece of shit!
Telling sports clubs they shouldn’t invite the leader of the opposition to a function.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 8:40 am
What is interesting is where the Richmond e-mails came from.
Richmond CEO Brendon Gale is rusted on Labor so he would be an unlikely leaker.
The PM’s office was copied in.
An enemy within perhaps.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 8:45 am
Spot on Tiny.
He should return to Shepparton and settle up.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 8:46 am
Honestly! has there ever been a more bogan couple in the Lodge than these two?
I wish you lot would stop calling them that. As a westy, they aint bogans.
Fleeced
9 Mar 13 at 8:50 am
He actually isn’t a hairdresser.
I understand he’s a mousse salesman.
Yeah – I rememberer hearing that last year… Haha – funniest revelation of the year. He’d been mocked as a hairdresser for years (including on that ABC show), and then we find out that he was a couple rungs lower.
Fleeced
9 Mar 13 at 8:54 am
AFL grand final is 28 sept. poor bugger isn’t going to get a seat as that’s two weeks after the election.
Boy on a bike
9 Mar 13 at 8:59 am
And anyway, what’s with this “First Bloke” rubbish?
I’ tried getting “First fuck-buddy” to take off, but with no success.
Fleeced
9 Mar 13 at 9:01 am
AFL grand final is 28 sept. poor bugger isn’t going to get a seat as that’s two weeks after the election.
Depends how long in advance he secures the tickets.
It was joked before that a proposal could be on the cards to bump up their popularity… I reckon a breakup might do better in that regard.
Fleeced
9 Mar 13 at 9:03 am
Shady Oakes will blame Abbott. See, if Abbott hadn’t been there then poor Timmy wouldn’t have got upset and sent an email.
Pathetic.
Tim and Jools have had precious little to do with sport their whole sad excuses for lives. They should be paying a premium (out of their own pockets) to bask in the reflected glory of sportspeople. That glory doesn’t come cheap these days.
Drop taxpayer funding of sporting codes and politicians and their significant others wouldn’t have such ‘pull’ with clubs in the first place.
Keith
9 Mar 13 at 9:03 am
“Don’t you know who I am?”
easily becomes
“Don’t you know who I think I am?”
Paul
9 Mar 13 at 9:15 am
AFL grand final is 28 sept. poor bugger isn’t going to get a seat as that’s two weeks after the election.
Too true!
He will probably try to snag as many Freebies as he can before the gravy train is de-railed, but I doubt he is that clever.
It will be hilarious to hear the post election stories of Tim trying to barge his way into the member’s enclosure at the footy/cricket/races and being sat back on his arse.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 9:18 am
“Don’t you know who I am was?”
sdog
9 Mar 13 at 9:22 am
FORMER first lady Margaret Whitlam has criticised Prime Minister John Howard’s wife Janette for not doing enough for the community.
Mrs Whitlam, whose husband Gough was prime minister from 1972 to 1975, says Mrs Howard has no sense of humour and should not still be holding hands with her husband in public.
“For God’s sake, they’ve been married for over 30 years!” Mrs Whitlam says in a new biography to be published next week.
In extracts from the biography, published in The Bulletin magazine today, Mrs Whitlam says Mrs Howard does not do enough charity work or public appearances.
“She is useless in terms of how little she really gives the community,” Mrs Whitlam is quoted as saying.
“The doesn’t even go to the old people’s homes that Howard visits. The only thing she goes to is big public things.
I’ts not like Tim “Vidal Sassoon” Mathieson can critisise Abbott for not doing charity work so he hits out on the next best thing…..”Why does he get better free stuff than me?”
Splatacrobat
9 Mar 13 at 9:24 am
It all starts to make sense.
Does anyone remember mid last year when it was revealed (by Tim Blair I think) that they had appointed a PA to manage Tim Matheson’s “affairs of state”.
At the time there was outrage at the expense because, basically, Tim didn’t actually do anything to need a PA.
I suspect it was an appointment to vet Timbo’s e-mail outbox after he had been into the Lodge cellar.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 9:24 am
Reading that article I was struck by how The humble hard working Abbott with hardworking demure spouse, his close knit family with 3 intelligent girls who are working to achieve their potential.
Take a minute contrast with the brash & dodgy PM’s family with lay about spouse with a chip on his shoulder & a brood of 3 tactless, tasteless underachieving whelps.
What could be a better allegory for the 2 schools of political thought in this country and the 2 coalitions of parties that represent these schools of thought?
Token
9 Mar 13 at 9:29 am
Margaret Whitlam would have contributed more foe the country if she stood up to her husband about his love for far left regimes with a habit of killing millions of its citizens.
Token
9 Mar 13 at 9:32 am
I’ tried getting “First fuck-buddy” to take off, but with no success.
He would be a long way down the queue to be able to legitimately claim that title fleeced.
Splatacrobat
9 Mar 13 at 9:33 am
What is interesting is where the Richmond e-mails came from.
Richmond CEO Brendon Gale is rusted on Labor so he would be an unlikely leaker.
The PM’s office was copied in.
An enemy within perhaps.
Bolta is a keen Richmond supporter from what I gather. Brendon Gale being the only Richmond address on an email doesn’t mean it is not auto directed to other addresses within Richmond. And since he knew that the story was coming out yesterday…… . Andrew Bolt is Satan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bear Necessities
9 Mar 13 at 9:38 am
Geez, hope Abbott doesn’t turn up at the netball. Seriously, though, this log should stay polite. Gale won’t have to offer him anything next year.
And Another Thing
9 Mar 13 at 9:38 am
I think the authority responsible for The Lodge would be well advised to do regular inventories of the cellar and silver.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 9:39 am
“I’ tried getting “First fuck-buddy” to take off, but with no success”
Thought he was a few decades late for that accolade.
what planet am I on?
9 Mar 13 at 9:40 am
Hey Bear.
I am guessing that the leaked e-mails might have come from the PM’s office.
You know, a disgruntled staffer who joined to do serious political stuff but instead find themselves assigned to wiping Timmy’s arse.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 9:43 am
I still wonder if the first “couple” have actually coupled!!!
Do they actually sleep on the same bed???
Mike of Marion
9 Mar 13 at 9:44 am
. Seriously, though, this log should stay polite. Gale won’t have to offer him anything next year.
I can see a number of people activating the “number blocked” feature on the iPhone and the “send to recycle bin” facility on e-mail first thing on 15th September.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 9:47 am
“I’ tried getting “First fuck-buddy” to take off, but with no success”
Thought he was a few decades late for that accolade.
First Unmarried Fuck Buddy.
Bear Necessities
9 Mar 13 at 9:49 am
What rude comments.
Vidal Mathieson is a VIP after all.
(Vidal lifted from above comment.
This is a freaking hilarious fred.)
JC
9 Mar 13 at 9:51 am
Timbo suffers from delusions of adequacy
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 9:58 am
Thought he was a few decades late for that accolade.
I never said he was the first First Fuck-Buddy…. But as they’re unmarried, and it seems to be a relationship of convenience, it seemed a more appropriate title than “First Bloke”
To be honest, I don’t understand all the fuss about “first lady”, etc… we’re not America. It’s funny how people are so anti-US, but they love to emulate them… kind of similar to how the US is obsessed with royalty – strange.
Fleeced
9 Mar 13 at 10:00 am
I’m more surprised that it has taken this long exposing her choice in partners is such that they are all on the dud side of the ledger.
In her case “It’s not you but me” should read “it’s both of us”.
Splatacrobat
9 Mar 13 at 10:01 am
Having deciphered Timbo’s poor spelling and Grammar I can deduce that he isn’t happy with Tony Abboot (sic).
Is it poor grammar, or simply poor typing skills?
Perhaps he needs an Asian lady PA with small fingers to type his correspondence.
… “Take a letter ~~Maria~~ Ting-Tong”
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 10:03 am
Great work Fleeced
Tim can have TLS-FFB on his T Shirt but also as the rego on his car.
WhaleHunt Fun
9 Mar 13 at 10:04 am
Or maybe First unmarried….
FUMFB
WhaleHunt Fun
9 Mar 13 at 10:05 am
Bollard will come home one day next year to find the Harvey Norman couch, the plasma, the jet-ski and Timbo have all gone missing.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 10:06 am
Perhaps he needs an Asian lady PA with small fingers to type his correspondence.
… “Take a letter ~~Maria~~ 457 Ting-Tong”
There fixed
Splatacrobat
9 Mar 13 at 10:07 am
To be honest, I don’t understand all the fuss about “first lady”, etc… we’re not America. It’s funny how people are so anti-US, but they love to emulate them… kind of similar to how the US is obsessed with royalty – strange
Quite so
what planet am I on?
9 Mar 13 at 10:08 am
still wonder if the first “couple” have actually coupled!!!
Great – now i have to soak my brain in paint stripper to remove the mental image.
Carpe Jugulum
9 Mar 13 at 10:09 am
Perhaps he needs an Asian lady PA with small fingers to type his correspondence
LOL… Some funny lines on this thread.
Fleeced
9 Mar 13 at 10:11 am
Not to worry. The “First Booty Call” and his Sheila are busy packing this weekend. Since she got rooted in Rooty Hill, Timbo can see the Crean on the wall.
Rod Stuart
9 Mar 13 at 10:21 am
To plagarise a line from History of the World:
“It is good to be the First Bloke”
His registry since 2009 reads like a sports junkie’s almanac. He’s present at almost every major event on the Australian calendar: Formula 1 Grand Prix; Derby Day; Oaks Day; Twenty20 games; Test Matches; the Australian Open; State of Origin; the Bradman Oration; Sports Australia Hall of Fame dinner; final series for AFL and NRL. Cricket Australia and Richmond Football Club have been generous providers of tickets, hospitality and memorabilia.
Bear Necessities
9 Mar 13 at 11:01 am
Tim Vidal’s faux paux’s should be rebadged as “Julia’s bad hair days”.
Splatacrobat
9 Mar 13 at 11:04 am
Prime minister doesn’t mean the first in a chronological sense.
First fuck-buddy just means fuck-buddy of the TLS, who finds herself floundering in the position of PM – God alone knows how that’s happened.
kae
9 Mar 13 at 11:20 am
God alone knows how that’s happened.
The elevation, the reasons for the floundering are apparent.
kae
9 Mar 13 at 11:24 am
Yes bear it’s Good to be The King. But I forsee that this bloke will end up as
The Lowly Piss Boy.
Pickles
9 Mar 13 at 11:25 am
Can’t wait for Tim’s memoirs to be published ….. and translated into English.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 11:32 am
Tim is an “avid fan”.
I seem to remember that term from a Hanibal Lecter book…
Boy on a bike
9 Mar 13 at 11:35 am
Is it tim Vidal , tim Sassoon , Vidal Mathieson
Sassoon Mathieson ?
Get it right, people.
JC
9 Mar 13 at 11:51 am
How about Mousse Mathieson?
duncanm
9 Mar 13 at 12:19 pm
You are all so unkind to Timmie! He is a VIP (very illiterate prick) .after all he is one of the ” men” shagging the alp/green/ Totally Dependent Guvmint Liebor Loider ! Show some respectfor this lovely “New Oideea” couple and do an inventory when they are evicted .confiscate her payout to pay for any damage or missing stuff!
Borisgodunov
9 Mar 13 at 12:20 pm
Why is this so apt?
duncanm
9 Mar 13 at 12:20 pm
Anyone will do if you pay them enough.
Says it all about Labor and Gillard.
mareeS
9 Mar 13 at 12:24 pm
One of the few FOI requests (pdf) released by the PM’s Office relate to Tim Mathieson. Apparently one of his “titles” is the “First Man”. A bit much for this jumped up de facto.
Cold-Hands
9 Mar 13 at 12:25 pm
The ABc is all over this story. Non-stop reporting all morning….bwwaahahahaha. Seriously, imagine if this was a conservative spouse, the msm would be beside itself in rushing to report the matter.
Gab
9 Mar 13 at 12:31 pm
What’s happening with those FOI requests about who was driving Gillard’s personal taxpayer-funded car when all the speeding fines were accrued?
Timmeh is such a sporty bloke, and Julia doesn’t have the IQ to move it out of P into D, let alone find the accelerator.
mareeS
9 Mar 13 at 12:31 pm
Amazing how much of that FOI product has been redacted, for email exchanges on what the FFB was going to say at some event in the NT.
Gab
9 Mar 13 at 12:40 pm
He is certainly no Dennis Thatcher.
War Service
Successful self made businessman
Family man
Splatacrobat
9 Mar 13 at 12:57 pm
Indeed Gab.
Do a quick find/replace substituting the name of the author of the e-mails as Jeanette Howard and the replace the subject of the complaint (Abbooot) with “Rudd”.
The Age would do a 16 page lift-out and there would be a full 4-Corners episode on why the Howard’s are unfit for high office.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 1:23 pm
Timbo is the type who gives trailer-trash a bad name.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 1:24 pm
The Mousse who Roared
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 1:25 pm
Having read the story on ‘First Freeloader’, Tiny Tim, the professionally unemployed, bankrupt, colour-blind, Shepparton ex-hairdresser, on Bolt’s Blog, I can’t help feeling sorry for the poor blighter!
Whenever you are feeling ‘down-in-the-dumps’ yourself, it is always somewhat uplifting to read of somebody whose circumstances are more tragic than your own.
This poor battler seems to have been on a permanent ‘downer’ for years.
What a misery his life must be. Try this list for size:
1). He is a Labor voter (lots of grief heading his way).
2). He is a Richmond supporter (ditto).
3) He is about to be evicted from his taxpayer-provided Canberra mansion, to return to Juliar’s less-than-salubrious, flea-ridden Altona doss-house.
4). Whenever he leaves the Canberra mansion, the speed cameras record his every move with multiple (un)happy snaps.
5). He shares a bed with Juliar Gillard.
6). He also apparently shares said bed with the all-singing, all-dancing, short-sighted ‘Dr Emo’ (and his belly full of contact lenses); a certain dodgy one-eyed R.S.L. burger-flipper; at least one former partner of Slater & Gordon; Bob Brown, Tony Windsock, Baldrick Oafshot, Wee Willy Wilkie, Craig Thomson and Peter Slipper (all of whom have been in bed with Juliar for part or all of the last couple of years – and with Bob Brown and Peter Slipper under the doona with him, he wouldn’t know which way to turn!).
No wonder the poor bloke is Patron of the “Men’s Shed” movement – he’s probably got a bottle or 3 stashed away out there.
Up The Workers!
9 Mar 13 at 1:43 pm
Julia’s future: Game set and match
Vidal’s future: Rinse set and colour match
Splatacrobat
9 Mar 13 at 1:44 pm
I know it is fun to pile onto Tim because he shows appalling lack of judgement, but given his choice of FB, we knew that already.
But give him a break. What sort of job prospects will he have in the future? Is he really going back to hairdressing/mousse salesmanship after this period?
Personally, I reckon he should be milking his time in the lodge for all its worth. Have the mates around as often as possible for a few beers around the pool. Watch any sports event in the world you may care to watch. Even watch a few live drone/SES missions ( in the face! In the face! Bwahhhaaaa). Raid the cellar. Get free stuff. Go to spectacular events and meet famous sportspeople. Drop whoopee cushions on the seats of pompous Ministers at the dining table.
Why not make the most of his three years of reflected fame? In his position I would.
Entropy
9 Mar 13 at 1:55 pm
That would be SAS, not SES.
Entropy
9 Mar 13 at 1:56 pm
It’s safe to say he’s already way ahead of you, Ent.
Gab
9 Mar 13 at 1:58 pm
Entropy
9 Mar 13 at 1:55 pm
He’d be on a healthy Parliamentary Pension sling for being the PM’s bitch!!!
Mike of Marion
9 Mar 13 at 2:25 pm
Entropy , I think you’d find most blokes at heart, would concur. However the weird bit is he feels he can throw his weight around . On what basis ? The guy is “tolerated” because of his gf. How he thinks he he gas any genuine ability to others what to do is beyond me. Doesn’t he read the polls? He must be really and I mean really dumb and socially inept
Nic
9 Mar 13 at 2:53 pm
Tim is in “let them eat cake” mode. The masses are at the gate but his priority is to complain about someone getting whats rightfully his.
Splatacrobat
9 Mar 13 at 2:59 pm
“still wonder if the first “couple” have actually coupled!!!”
I think a few Mummybloggers may have their hearts broken if that were to ever happen.
Paul
9 Mar 13 at 3:19 pm
Bollard
HAHAHAHAHA! That’s an instant classic. I am so stealing that.
nilk
9 Mar 13 at 3:26 pm
Nilk …. There is no stealing here.
Once a Gillard slag-off is posted here everyone has an immediate royalty-free global perpetual licence to use at will.
We share like the ALP do with hookers at their annual conference.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 5:58 pm
Once a Gillard slag-off is posted here everyone has an immediate royalty-free global perpetual licence to use at will.
Absolutely. It’s like the internet commons. No hoarding allowed.
JC
9 Mar 13 at 6:05 pm
But give him a break. What sort of job prospects will he have in the future? Is he really going back to hairdressing/mousse salesmanship after this period?
I hear he has done an advertising deal to provide endorsements for La-Z-Boy armchairs.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 6:40 pm
Karma, because one day…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7g1GhOTb0
Steve of Glasshouse
9 Mar 13 at 6:46 pm
Does anyone know what the protective detail call signs are for the PM and FB?
Steve of Glasshouse
9 Mar 13 at 6:51 pm
Ranga and Banga?
Gab
9 Mar 13 at 6:54 pm
POS and DAG?
Steve of Glasshouse
9 Mar 13 at 6:56 pm
Miranda Devine also examines the behaviour of this arriviste. The full colour glossy profile by Kate Legge in The Weekend Australian Magazine makes excruciating reading. The front page blurb is “‘Don’t You know who I am?’ The First Bloke, Tim Mathieson”, and the whole thing is depressing. Mathieson refused to speak to Legge, but as the editor says “sometimes the most revealing profiles come not from the subject, but from the people around them”. Mathieson’s sense of entitlement seems to be increasing the more perks he receives.
Cold-Hands
9 Mar 13 at 6:57 pm
At the Pink Day reception at the cricket, is the new Mrs McGrath holding the FFB at bay with a knife?
Cold-Hands
9 Mar 13 at 7:01 pm
Gawd he looks lecherous. What’s with the garish cravat? Who wears cravats these days?
Gab
9 Mar 13 at 7:03 pm
The Proim Minsters deepartmint ishyoud a stoitment ter doi ,deenoyin enni rongdoin boi Timmie ,ee didn soi it ,wee are consenrnd as to who dobbed him in ,scab bastards!
Borisgodunov
9 Mar 13 at 7:14 pm
At the Pink Day reception at the cricket, is the new Mrs McGrath holding the FFB at bay with a knife?
He he.
I did see that photo and commented to the wife that it looked like Timbo may have just given Mrs McGrath a surreptitious and unsolicited back rub.
Leigh Lowe
9 Mar 13 at 7:52 pm
At the Pink Day reception at the cricket, is the new Mrs McGrath holding the FFB at bay with a knife?
Have a look at the ill mannered Slapper seated to the right of Pigeon.
I would’ve thought that the PM’s department would have a protocol adviser or some such that could have told the ignorant cow that it is incredibly bad manners to wear your hat indoors at the dinner table.
Her parents have much to answer for.
Huckleberry Chunkwot
9 Mar 13 at 8:34 pm
Gawd he looks lecherous. What’s with the garish cravat?
The blonde in the orange looks as though she’s receptive to his charms.
Cold-Hands
9 Mar 13 at 8:50 pm
Am sitting in an NYC hotel room watching the sun come up and very much enjoying reading the comments on this thread – at what this country has come to.
My personal favourite image of Timbo is sitting tete-a-tete with the Empress of Japan, while Jools burbled inanities to be translated for the Emperor. I can just imagine Timbo thinking, “How TF did I end up Here?
He is priceless, a national treasure. Tim Matheson throwing around the “Don’t you know who I am?” is the funniest thing I have read in years.
James in Melbourne
9 Mar 13 at 10:35 pm

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From:The Australian
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Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd during question time in parliament yesterday. Picture: Gary Ramage. Source: The Australian

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BOGAN-VILLE remains contested territory, Kevin Rudd has admitted, and a "sensitive" subject for the former prime minister.

In the backrooms of Canberra, Bogan-ville is said to be Mr Rudd's name for The Lodge since Julia Gillard and boyfriend Tim Mathieson moved in.

On the eve of his "sack-iversary", as the opposition has dubbed it, Mr Rudd was asked, as Foreign Affairs Minister, when he planned to return to Bogan-ville.

She may have meant the Papua New Guinean province of Bougainville, but the glint in Julie Bishop's eye suggested otherwise.

"The Australian government remains deeply seized of the Bogan-ville peace process," Mr Rudd replied to his foreign affairs shadow and parliamentary chum.

Who knows what the public gallery thought, but the parliament erupted.

Mr Rudd continued, deadpan, that Australia must do all it could to further the peace process there.

"That is why we should be very sensitive about any external interventions by well-meaning Australian politicians," he said.

A "bogan", of course, is a derogatory term sometimes used interchangeably with "yobbo".

Not to be outdone and by no means bogans, West Australian National Tony Crook and independents Andrew Wilkie, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor doffed white wide-brimmed hats when Bob Katter - standing in about the only place where he is seen without the 10-gallon headgear - got the Speaker's call in their corner.

Mr Rudd lost the prime ministership to Ms Gillard a year ago tomorrow. He and wife Therese Rein now live just a few kilometres away from The Lodge, in up-market Yarralumla.

It's unclear who has actually heard Mr Rudd refer to his old digs as "Bogan-ville", but the claim has been repeated on the ABC and by several conservative commentators.

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