Toasting Bec

There are two kinds of people – those who follow the recipe and those who couldn’t if their life depended on it.

Someone who has abandoned the recipe, tossed the whole cook book and practically set fire to the entire kitchen is Rebecca Docherty – the Liberal-National Party’s 30-year-old newbie candidate for the Queensland seat of Griffith (Kevin Rudd’s rocking chair…er…seat). She’s a skinny blonde barmaid-turned-finance manager - whom Rudd recently snubbed - and she just scored a two-page pictorial spread in Grazia.

"I have champagne tastes on a beer budget. I used to buy the glossy magazines just to look at the pictures," Rebecca confessed. So, she must have been pretty stoked that she got to keep the glam clothes from the shoot.

In contrast, Jules got herself a thrilling 13-page feature in the August Women’s Weekly, complete with at-home photos, no doubt. I’ll bet the interview’s about as startling as Serapax.

In contrast, Rebecca gave her mag a gutsy quote on same-sex marriage: she says she has gay and lesbian friends and understands why they may want to formally recognise their coupledom. This is not a sentiment that would ever enter Tony’s, Julia’s or Kevin’s pantry.

Kev holds Griffith, the safest Labor seat in Queensland, by a margin of 12.4%. But if I were voting there, I’d say Kev's not worth a can of beans and toast Bec instead.