Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
The very title of "first lady" is bold confirmation of what many workplaces have been slow to acknowledge – that men holding down serious jobs can do them properly only if they have a woman behind the scenes.
Normal people who suddenly become unemployed eventually dust off their resumé and get back out there. Not prime ministers.
If you're a woman, it's starting to look as though 2016 might be actually just one giant bloopers reel, a series of insults so outrageous that they must have been staged as part of an out-takes special for a new series of Candid Camera.
It is not the first time the porcine has become political.
People, says Tony Abbott, "are being neurotic" about his push for greater democratisation within the NSW Liberal Party.
It is unfair to level a charge of cultural insensitivity against the so-called Budgie Nine, who were under arrest for inflicting their personal brand of privileged homoerotic loutishness on the people of Malaysia.
Times are tough for narcissists on the public stage – the ascension of The Donald has created so much noise and bedazzlement that you have to work a lot harder to get noticed.
It may come as a surprise to many new mothers, as they gaze into the eyes of their new small love and recover from the gross physical assault of birth, to learn that they are actually bludgers.
You only get one crack at a maiden speech, so you've got to make it count.
William Knox, the first member for Kooyong, was a man of big moustache and loud opinion.
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