Day 27- Who runs this show?

Brilliantly, Sky news broadcast the NBN announcement via a camera phone. That breaks. So we cross to audio from a regular phone. Crackly, indistinct words from Julia and Stevie Conroy about how we need fast internets, and now. Through a dodgy phone line.

The brawler & the bruiser, toes to toe in the dickhead-off. Via SMH

Later, Sky crosses to the scrum after Abbott's announcement for veterans. The scrum doesn't surround Abbott, but the man 'just trying to file his story, this Sunday, 60 minutes', only Captain Latham of the Cranky-Sad-and-Lonely Express! What a wobbly vessel she is. Bile? Sure thing, he's got plenty? Machismo? maybe, if your idea of essential masculinity just crawled from the cave for a scratch of the ancient arse and a slash on the once glowing embers of a career. Journos crowded round to ask what in hell he was doing there and why he was the figure of all this attention, to which he replied 'I dunno- it's your decision to point your cameras toward me.' Fair call. A better call was his response being asked if he watched the Rooty Hill throwdown. 'Oh no', he said, with something almost, momentarily resembling charm. 'I was watching Farmer Wants a Wife'.

Latham waited and waited for Abbott, sealing the only exit with his vast frame while Abbott worked his way through the oldies, there to be quite justly honoured. Sky took it live and it became progressively more like car crash stuff. Lib minders moved chairs to seal Latham from Abbott. Latham made himself a coffee and was accosted by a vet- I think somewhat tersely. Then he got his interview with Abbott. He asks 'are you brave enough to shake my hand?' They laugh. Then he says 'are you prepared to apologise for your role in jailing Pauline Hanson?' Abbott says this was the Qld justice systems call. Latham then says what about this migration issue? Abbott says what about it? And a vet calls out 'this is about veterans, why don't you bugger off?'

To recap, the former leader of the Federal Labor party's first, and only questions to the Liberal leader and possible Prime Minister were regarding Pauling Hanson, who he feels got a bum deal, and Immigration, which Latham would like to curtail.

Result? Abbott looks good. Latham is a cock.