If Kim Jong-un wasn't threatening to drop a missile on Guam and Donald Trump wasn't counter-striking with a threat to hurl fire and fury the likes of which this world has never seen before - which is quite a quote to contemplate - you'd be tempted to try to make sense of Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts.
Such a task, of course, is teetering on the preposterous.Â
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It's not straight forward: Hanson
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has referred her senator Malcolm Roberts to the High Court as questions linger over his citizenship but they still won't release documents that could clear the issue up.
But given we're not likely to sort out Kim and Donald in the near future (a period which may or may not eventuate, depending on whether either is allowed near the launch codes in their current states of mind), we may as well content ourselves with Pauline and Malcolm.
You might have noted that just a day or two ago Senator Hanson promised that Senator Roberts would set everyone's mind at rest about his citizenship by producing, for the perusal of the Senate, the documents he says proves he's all-Australian.
Senator Hanson insisted she and Roberts wanted it settled so the long-suffering Australian people wouldn't be burdened with the cost of a High Court case.
What a shock, then, to discover that all of a sudden, Roberts has decided to keep the documents to himself.Â
He would produce them only for the pleasure of the High Court, thank you for asking, and if you were asking, he wouldn't be commenting further.
And none other than Hanson - Senator Roberts'Â leader and staunch defender - would be referring his case for the expensive judgment of the High Court.Â
Had we blundered in to an episode of that old TV show, Mork and Mindy, the one that made Robin Williams the most hilarious and unpredictable alien of his time, Mork from Ork? Was Malcolm Roberts auditioning for a role in a remake?Â
Politics seems lost in space all over the place.Â
In Melbourne, Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy is trying to crab-walk away from a lobster dinner by referring himself to Victoria's anti-corruption commission.
Call it getting in first.Â
Hanson and Roberts knew that Roberts's spot of bother was about to be referred to the High Court by the Greens, who have suffered more than a bit of pain with the tricky business of dual citizenship.Â
Pauline and Malcolm weren't about to give the Greens the satisfaction of outsourcing any of that pain to One Nation.Â
So they, too, got in first.
Pity the High Court.
Accustomed to sitting in judgment on matters of grave importance, it suddenly finds itself overrun with accident-prone politicians.Â
Apart from the citizenship, dual or otherwise, of Roberts, there's the eligibility of Nationals senator and former minister Matt Canavan, a confessed dual citizen who wants to remain in Parliament, and a recount for the seats of two Greens, Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters, who have resigned from the Senate after discovering they were dual citizens.
And then there is the challenge by Labor to the right of the assistant health minister and Nationals MP, David Gillespie, to remain in Parliament. At issue is Mr Gillespie's ownership of a shopping centre which includes an outlet of Australia Post. Under section 44 of the constitution, anyone with a "direct or indirect pecuniary interest" in an agreement with the Commonwealth is disqualified to sit as an MP.
Oh, and to round out the High Court's fun, it will consider a challenge to the legality of the Coalition government's decision to hold a postal vote on same-sex marriage.
Unless, of course, Kim and Donald get in first, and blow up the world.Â