So, Lyle Shelton has decided to become the federal communications director for the Australian Conservatives, and not, as The Sydney Morning Herald had wrongly prematurely announced, “make a pitch for Federal Parliament”. Oh dear. The SMH really is starting to get a reputation for this kind of journalistic sloppiness.

Shelton explained his reason for making such a decision:

Last year during the marriage campaign I felt very much drawn to the political side of things, to the partisan side of politics… I’m not leaving the battle for the values that you and I hold dear — just simply going to a different...