Sting In The Tale, A

Eugene Schlusser's light-hearted political satire imagines the rapid rise to power of Australia's first female Prime Minister (played by Diane Craig). Well-written by Patrick Edgeworth it is often entertaining and although strongly Australian in flavour (Edwin Hodgeman's media baron is a very thinly disguised allusion to Rupert Murdoch), is in essence a timeless fable of the unseen machinations that constitute Westminster style party politics.

Director Schlusser, whose main experience had been to that time in theatre and television makes good use of an evidently limited budget with only the typically 1980s synth-pop score by Allen Zavod intruding and the latter parts of the plot, in which Craig's character turns the tables on her egregiously male colleagues, being rather confusingly, even glibly, handled.

 

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