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I’m betting Rupert Murdoch had money invested in a Kevin Rudd victory. The new PM is a headline writer’s dream.

Watching the election coverage at a party full of journalists in Sydney on Sunday night, the 'punny' headlines were coming thick and fast under the influence of vast quantities of champagne.

And, it’s with amusement I note that the (hopefully) soberer sub-editors on the nation’s newspapers have already employed some of our suggestions.

From the list of slightly drunken party-goers’ contributions:

“It’s a Rudd-Slide”; “Ruddy Hell, We Won!”; “It’s a Kev-olution”; “The Libs are Rudd-erless”; “The Kev-inator”.

How about we start a repository of ‘punny’ headlines here to ease the burden of the inevitable corniness on our comrades at the subs desks? Come on, have a go!    [read more]