Happy New Sedition Laws! Just in time for Christmas. Be careful, kiddies, when you play with your new (In)Action Man and GI Johnny, lest your troops of the Coalition of the Willing suffer any harm due to encouragement from enemy forces. You could find a nice little letter in the post for you with a summons inside. Still, it would make for a great Show and Tell.

ETA: Not forgetting, of course, that Barbie might be hit by the new Welfare to Work program since she and Ken are having relationship difficulties post-fling with that surfer dude (Barbie's fling, not Ken's. Surprisingly). Barbie is now a single mother, or carer, or whatever her relationship is with all those kids that seem to be multiplying in the aisles of Target. Bye bye sole parent pension, Hellooooo dole queue.

I forecast, too, with my Nostradamus mind's eye, that Mattel will have to introduce a new range: Australian Workplace Agreement Barbie, to replace Career Barbie (as she will no longer have one). Comes complete with tired expression, grossly unfair contract and no penalty rates. Boss with 'equal' bargaining power and $40 million in the bank, plus letter from Peter Costello offering him a position on the Reserve Bank Board sold separately.

Funnily enough, I'm not at all placated by the Rodent's assertion that there are new safeguards. I wonder why that might be? Aside from the fact that safeguards have (allegedly) been put into place for journalists, but not citizens exercising their (limited) freedom of speech...