Prankster And A Phantom In Senate Vote

TWO words scrawled on a pale blue ballot paper sent whispers shooting around Parliament House yesterday in an upper house whodunit. The job of Senate president went to Labor's John Hogg. He won the job of overseeing the chamber from the big red chair at its head by an overwhelming majority.

92 Vie For Council In The Long Run

IT'S not quite as big as the infamous tablecloth ballot paper that faced NSW voters in 1999 but the more than 60-centimetre-long list of candidates in Campbelltown for next month's local government election would make a nice table runner.