Bronwyn Bishop's political career may be in its death throes but her steely gaze will live on forever in the halls of Parliament House.

Taxpayers will be charged at least $30,000 to commission an artist to immortalise Mrs Bishop in an official portrait.

Despite resigning from the Speaker's chair in disgrace for using $5227 of taxpayers' cash to charter a chopper to attend a party fundraiser, Mrs Bishop is still entitled to the senior office holder painting.

She has now begun "preliminary conversations" with the Department of Parliamentary Services to decide on an artist.

Always caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The New South Wales division of the Liberal Party has been denied access to more than $4 million in public campaign funding by the state's electoral commission after its refusal to disclose the details of donors.

There is a comment by our wisdom-ish Prime Minister, Malcolm Becalmed, in the Sydney Morning Herald. Here we are feted to a flurry of headlines in order to capture maximum SMH readers unawares.

The first headline is in the print edition:

Terrorism is designed to make us turn on each other, but we must resist

The federal education minister, Simon Birmingham, has criticised an email to a voter reportedly written by Cory Bernardi which linked the Safe Schools program to bondage clubs and adult sex toys …

Making a direct comparison between Coalition policies under Mr Abbott and Mr Turnbull, Sales said: "There was very little difference, so then what was the point of knifing Tony Abbott?"

Mr Turnbull refused to "buy into those sort of unpleasant metaphors".

"We shouldn't be using violent metaphors," he said, prompting Sales to replace "knifing" with "replace". 

May the Brussels terror attack remind us of the other attacks in Turkey and in Africa... and the USA.

We know who the culprits are but we dare not mention their REAL names, because they are our "friends", in religious freedom and petroleum supplies.

May all of us rest in peace.

Record-breaking autumn heat is just a warning of what's to come if Australia doesn't act immediately to combat climate change.

That's the message from environmental experts armed with a report that reveals a notable climb in average temperatures across the country at the start of March.