CELEBRITY hairstylist Joh Bailey has given a big thumbs up to Prime Minister’s Julia Gillard’s new look saying it makes Australia seem more modern and credible.
Ms Gillard was filmed yesterday in the ABC’s studios sporting a new haircut.
Gone is the blunt bob and ginger streaks and in its place is a darker, more asymmetrical short cut that frames our Prime Minister’s face.
Asked about the cut, celebrity hairstylist Joh Bailey agreed it was a vast improvement.
Biggest story since John Howard’s 2002 mohawk. Still, let’s hope they don’t give this Prime Minister’s haircuts the same relentless coverage they gave every one of Kevin Rudd’s, to the point where was almost boring. And didn’t Paul Keating take to doing interviews under a burkha so that the media would concentrate on what he was saying, not on his beautiful locks? It became a bit of a distraction, by the end.
I just think it might be time to let the hair stories go. How about it, national media? Shall we make Julia Gillard the first Prime Minister with whose haircuts we’re not obsessed? I know it’d be abandoning a long-standing tradition, but I reckon we can do it.
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Ok, this is weird I know … but I don’t imagine KRUDD!1!![1] or Tonez as actually having hair. I think I’m now permanently wired to see the first as a balloon with glasses, and the second as a bike-helmet.
What does this say about me?
[1] !!!1!
Jeremy
What’s at issue here? The fact that the superficial and cosmetic aspects of female politicians are the subject fluff media pieces and that of male pollies are not ? Well, I’m sorry to dissapoint:
Google “John Howard eyebrows”, “Brendan Nelson ear ring” or “Tony Abbott speedos” and you’ll find a plethora of material. You’ll even find some opinion pieces on the topics in that paradigm of quality journalism, The Age.
But if your cavil is about the fixation on Julia’s new hair in contrast to the absence of interest in Tony’s, or male pollies in general, it’s because they don’t change their hair that often or markedly. Therefore there is nothing of interest for the fluff-machine of tabloid journalism.
The thrust of your post is like saying: “All this talk about Tone’s in his budgie smugglers! Why don’t they pay attention to Julia’s getting about in a two-piece?”. The answer to which, is because she doesn’t. If John Howad actually had got a mohawk in 2002, I daresay there would have been a few similarly veined articles thereabout.
Again there appears to be no intellectual dishonesty at work here, Jeremy. May I suggest you rename this blog: Pure Predictably: When Tabloids being Tabloids Violate the Fashionable, Subjective Mores of Progressives.
Unfortunately I’ve been watching Starkey & Scharma variations on MONARCHY ove the Xmas/New Year break, finishing off with Cate Blanchett’s “ELIZABETH”.
Imagine my horror when i first saw the PM new look – the high, extended naked forehead, the dearth of womanly length below her ears. OK, Liz #1 led to the domination of the world by a tiny, rain sodden off shore island but somehow I can’t see our erstwhile Riene Ranga as winner.
She’s only still hanging on by the sheer ugliness of the alternatives, both party colleagues and the Opposition.
She’s probably grateful that her hair is taking the spotlight off her lying and incompetence anyway…