New Home, anyone?

Ok kids, here's tricks.

Since last we met, more junk has been said about Ken's poop flinging antics, the Victorian budget has been handed down and Catherine Deveny has got... the... sack!

Thirty six hours is a long time in, er, how does that saying go again?

Leading today's Well Gosh Darn's, a quote:

"What we've got here today from the Government is a tax grab, not a tax reform. It's a tax fiddle, not a tax cut."

Thanks for that Tony Abbot. Now while I try to erase the image of Kevin Rudd struggling with Ken Henry's bra strap we'll give you a rest for a minute I think. Except to say that it is official - the Liberal Party's focus for this years election campaign will actually be offal.

"This Government is a sham. It has no commitment to reform. It is a gutless Government, led by a gutless Prime Minister," Mr Hockey said on Monday.

Now. The Victorian Budget. Handed down by a man suspiciously named Lenders. Treasurer Lenders. You just need a comma in there really.

Le break down: cops, health and a little somethin' somethin' for Melbourne's ye olde public transport system. More specifically: about $4 billion for health, $1 billion for public transport and about $500 million for new operational police.

But the star of the show was an increase in the first home buyers grant if you by a new home and a decrease if you don't, a center piece overshadowed somewhat by the announcement by the Reserve Bank that interest rates will continue to ride higher than Kirsty Alley's panty line on the same day as the budget.

Six times in eight months! Jesus Christ Glen! Give us a break! Yes the economy is as strident now as a first draft pick with meat on his bones and trophies on his mind - but this town is short on couches, let alone actual beds in actual bedrooms, in houses normal people can afford to live in.

Re. increased home buyers incentives: Did Lenders and Brumby miss the HOCKEY STICK STATS everyone else in Australia managed to catch sight of after the introduction of the Federal Governments quick!-give-them-money-for-bricks-and-mortar! effort last year? An inflation in price and an even dirtier glint in the eyes of real estate agents every where.

I don't know! Maybe we should all just move to Canada. At least they have bears there.

Last on today's agenda - Deveny bites it.

Did any one see it coming? Is anyone glad? Is anyone sad?

With a wealth of poor man's humor on offer via twitter at the Logies, I can't say I was surprised to see her having a crack - but by jingoes she over-stepped the line with her 'taken out of context' crack at Belinda Emmet. Who is no longer living.

Here’s what she had to say to John Fayne this morning.

Unconvincing. Pretty, pretty unconvincing.

So there’s the goshing and darning for today. Abbot on guts and bra straps, Lenders hands down a budget in Victoria and Deveny is cast out. Hopefully we’ll never have to put up with her on Q & A again either.