LIBERAL staff and MPs despair about their prospects of winning the next election and continue to canvas leadership alternatives to Malcolm Turnbull.

THE COLLECTORS 8pm, ABC1: Robert Messenger needs only another 999,400 typewriters and a million stenographic monkeys before he can have a crack at fluking the works of Shakespeare in the ultimate experiment involving chance. Of course the other factor is a million-year time frame so, really, Messenger's collection of 600..read more

ALWAYS thinking of the little people, that's working-class hero Bill Shorten. The Maribyrnong MP has an office in Canberra - the city where public servants never sleep - he has an electoral office in Moonee Ponds and now a "Pope-mobile" (below) to spread the word according to Bill. The van..read more

Mr K. Rudd The Lodge On the busy road CANBERRA, ACT 2600 Memo to: GFONLG (Glamorous Friends of the New Labor Government)

ASIO file In 2003, Mary Hammond went to Canberra to ask for her ASIO file. She was given 41 pages tracking her moves as a Communist Party member and social realist artist between 1952 and 1972. Initially Hammond - then Mary Lubica Zuvela - had no idea she was being..read more