As I face a night at work subbing Queensland election stories, one of my colleagues reminds me of something she once heard: "Politics is just showbiz for ugly people."

On 612ABC and ABC News Radio's election coverage, host Richard Fidler has referred to guest Kevin Rudd as "the ABC's federal spokesman for foreign affairs". Rudd is, of course, the ALP's spokesman on foreign affairs.

The election may have resulted in another landslide for Peter Beattie, but one three-way contest is still too close to call. The Sunday Mail office sweep, where we all attempted to predict the final number of seats held by the major partieis, still hangs in the balance. I'm one of the final contenders and if Labor ends up with 60 seats, I'll be the winner.

Life really is unfair. A New York woman who won a $1 million lottery prize four years ago has just won another $1 million on a scratch card. The odds of this happening are, apparently, 1 in 3,669,120,000,000. Valerie Wilson, a 56-year-old deli worker, told a newspaper: "The first time I couldn't believe it. This time I said, 'God's on my side'. I lost my husband in 1993, so I went to the cemetery and thanked him. I figured he had something to do with it."
New York state lottery officials said two other people have also won $1m prizes on two separate occasions. And I just want to win once ...

Saturday night: Peter Beattie gets re-elected by promising, among other things, to fix Queensland's water crisis.
Sunday afternoon: It's been raining all day.
Coincidence?