Talk:Natasha Stott Despoja

That image of her is not very good. She has lost weight recently, and now looks much, much better - a babe in fact.

Someone please find a better picture!

Yeah! Although not as attractive as she was in her heyday, she's not bad for someone well into their fifth decade! --Jumbo 21:12, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

What are you talking about? My arithmetic makes her out to be 37.

She was born in the Sixties. --Surgeonsmate 02:25, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Mediawatch

Whatshisface on mediawatch did a wondrful hatchet-job on NSD. "The only thing she has to offer to the public is her own carefully-managed fame." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 152.91.9.242 (talk • contribs) .

"elected in her own right"

I can see why this wording was chosen. She was appointed to a Senate casual vacancy (i.e. without being elected by the voters), but later won a seat at the next half-Senate election. It is wrong to say that she was elected in her own right because votes in Senate elections are overwhelmingly "above the line" for the party.

This is a point that NSD herself raised when Meg Lees resigned from the Democrats and became an independent. She claimed that Lees' seat belonged to the Democrats, not Lees. --Surgeonsmate 03:47, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I've replaced Whywhywhy's rather distant shot with a cropped version which shows Tash as more than just a pixel or two but which retains the character of the gathering. It should go on the left so that the subject faces into the article. Luckily the original image had enough pixels that I could do this digital zoom. I have not tagged this image with any copyright information as it isn't my image. --Surgeonsmate 22:15, 27 May 2006 (UTC)