We had a fantastic response to our last quiz and we thank everyone who entered. The winner was Ray Wood, of Raywood. Congratulations Ray. Fine work. For the record, the answers were as follows:
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False. Stephen Milne is not the leader of the Greens. He is a footballer. The Greens leader is Christine Milne; also very handy given room in the goal square.
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True. The man who has accused Peter Slipper of committing an offence may not be able to give evidence without revealing that he has a committed an offence. Mr Justice Escher will be releasing his finding yestermorrow.
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True. Roger Federer has now won seventeen grand slam singles titles, well over half Margaret Court’s twenty-four. Roger doesn’t play doubles so perhaps won’t challenge Margaret’s other thirty-eight grand slam tennis titles.
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False. Cadel Evans was not sabotaged by carbon tacks. They were not made of carbon; they were just little nails thrown on the road by idiots.
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False. There is no such thing as The Carlton Tax. They’re just not travelling too well at the minute.
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True. Of course Victoria has a Planning Minister. And if we don’t have one in stock, we can order one in for you.
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False. Disgraced Former Players' Agent are not his Christian names.
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True. Malcolm Turnbull has been building a substantial a stake in the Liberal Party and is believed to be looking for three seats on the board.
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True. Grant Hackett has still won two Olympic 1500 metre freestyle titles and finished second in a third. This is expected to remain a fact.
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True. If the government and the opposition both develop asylum seeker policies which don’t make sense, that is the fault of the Greens.
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False. There is no actually panic button at ALP headquarters. That is simply a figure of speech.
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True. The Australian government has recently announced a network of marine reserves covering three million square miles of ocean around Australia. This might have been in the newspaper had it not been for the fact that Lara Bingle took the dog for a walk.
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True. This question about Fairfax was omitted for reasons of space.
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False. George Brandis is not a character in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera. He is the shadow Attorney General. And we are his sisters and his cousins and his aunts; his sisters and his cousins and his aunts.
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True. Property values are collapsing and then surging again at such speed that it’s almost as if they don’t move very much at all.
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True. A statement has been released by the UN Secretary General, that all member nations agree that fighting in Syria should immediately desist and that Andy Murray’s mother should sit down.
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False. ‘The Idea of a University’ was not written by Campbell Newman but by Cardinal Newman. Campbell Newman wrote ‘The Idea of Closing Down the Premier’s Literary Award’ and ‘The Idea of Opposing Grants for Indigenous Students’.
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False. Peter Ryan did not appear in Batman 3. He is the Deputy Premier of Victoria.
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True. Out for this weekend’s matches are: Gillard — hamstring, Slipper – corked thigh, Ashby — niggle in the glutes, Abbott — concussion, Thompson – fitness. Brough and Pyne have been suspended; both tested positive to all known substances.
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True. The game depicted in the photograph is cricket. Records indicate that at one time this was a game played in Australia.