Selects • April 2025
Australian Politics
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Prime Time Ministers
Actual and fictional PMs in pop culture.
A 2005 musical featuring the numbers Redfern and I Wanna Do You Slowly depicts the political career of which former prime minister?
What is the name of the prime minister in The Simpsons episode “Bart vs. Australia” - Kevin, Andy, or Billy?
The son of which real-life 1970s Australian prime minister plays a fictional Australian PM in Netflix series The Residence?
To date, who has been the only Australian prime minister impersonated on Saturday Night Live?
In her role as chair of an education charity after leaving politics, Julia Gillard took a trip to Malawi with which pop megastar?
Prime Time Ministers
I See Fed People
We’ll give you the federal politician; you give us the minor political party with which they were first elected to parliament.
Natasha Stott Despoja
Jacqui Lambie
Rebekha Sharkie
Alfred Deakin
Ricky Muir
I See Fed People
Civics!
It’s not all polls and personalities.
Not including acting prime ministers, how many people have served as Australian prime minister in the 21st century?
Name the current governor of any Australian state (not territory).
There are three official Territories on the Australian mainland: Northern, Australian Capital, and what other?
Which of these foods does not share its name with an Australian federal electorate: Mayo, Bass, Marinara, or Bean?
What is the only Australian state not mentioned in the preamble to the Constitution?
Civics!
States by Electorate
We name three federal divisions; you tell us which state they’re all in.
Eden-Monaro, Grayndler, Lyne
Leichhardt, Capricornia, Kennedy
Braddon, Franklin, Bass
Corio, Hawke, Indi
Bullwinkel, Durack, Swan
States by Electorate
Talking Points
They can talk the talk, but can they walk the walk?
In 2017, Bob Katter went viral after segueing from a question on same-sex marriage to what other issue?
In what year did Prime Minister Kevin Rudd make a formal apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples?
In a 1996 60 Minutes interview, Pauline Hanson responded to which three-word question with her now famous quote “Please explain”?
Finish this iconic Gough Whitlam quote: “Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because...”
Which former NRL star went on radio to launch a run for parliament in 2001 only to quit his campaign less than 30 seconds into the interview?
Talking Points
Scandal’us
Which politician was at the centre of the fiascos below?
Choppergate
(2015)
Nominating Prince Philip for a knighthood
(2015)
The Sports Rorts affair
(2020)
Lost trousers in Memphis
(1986)
Fishnet stockings photoshoot
(1996)
Scandal’us
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