A friend was supposed to be on Five News this lunchtime, talking about the stupid proposals to criminalise – with strict liability! – buying sexual services from people 'controlled' (that doesn't mean coerced: if you chose to work for an agency and get told where a client is and you go there, or when your shift is, that's control) by others or who were 'trafficked' (even if they wanted to come here knowing exactly what work they were going to do).

But apparently Nicole Kidman not dyeing some grey hairs is a more important story, and there was only a few seconds on this one, complete with some classic 'women on street corners at night' shots…