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Leaked UNHCR report: Manus Island world’s worst
As the government prepares to meet with the UNHCR, urgent action is being demanded on mental decay.
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AMBITION
“Another government approached Mr Rudd to nominate him as a candidate for UN secretary-general.”
The former prime minister claims through a spokesperson that he was in hot demand for the top job at the United Nations. A series of unnamed people also said he was a reasonable and skilled manager.
DIPLOMACY
“It was clearly premeditated. They were wearing the budgie smugglers and had bought them in Australia.”
The foreign minister shares her views on the nine Australians arrested for nuisance after stripping at the Formula 1 grand prix in Malaysia. One of the men works for Christopher Pyne, which was considered punishment enough.
LEADERSHIP
“I’m not going to be drawn on interesting gossip or even uninteresting gossip.”
The prime minister rejects reports Tony Abbott has been talking up his chances of returning to the leadership while on a trip to Britain. Abbott’s establishment there of a government in exile takes its lead from King Zog of Albania, among others.
LAW
“Notwithstanding that there is a difference between us on these matters … from a professional point of view we have never had a cross word.”
The attorney-general contradicts evidence from the solicitor-general, which suggested he misled parliament, and which in legal circles might constitute a pretty “cross word”.
CRIME
“I’m sorry, there’s a family emergency — I have to stop the show.”
The rapper stops a New York show after hearing his wife, Kim Kardashian West, had been tied up and robbed at gunpoint in Paris. Kardashian West was uninjured in the attack.
LITERATURE
“Far from the daughter of a Neapolitan seamstress … real estate and financial records point to Anita Raja, a Rome-based translator.”
The journalist apparently reveals the true identity of Italian publishing sensation Elena Ferrante. In a follow-up report for the New York Review of Books, he promises to address other popular Google searches: “lost child ending”, “ferrante lost child synopsis” and “what happened to tina at the end of the lost child”.