Welcome to Mamamia Rogue’s Hero, Shocker and Whinger of the week.
This week’s edition has a bit of extra venom injected. For those of you that are new to this corner of the site, every week we nominate our hero – someone who did something brilliant, shocker – someone who made our jaws drop, and whinger – someone call the whaaaa-mbulance.
And this week’s winners are:
Hero of the week goes to…
Mama Greste. Great news came this week when jailed Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was finally released from Egpyt after some 400 days in prison.
We don’t know about you, but that’s far longer than we could go without tim tams/coffee/a hot running shower. The man is a legend.
But, just as worthy of a mention, is his Peter’s mum Lois (that’s her on the left there).
We have awarded Mama Greste hero this week because, in the face of this terrible ordeal, after having waited so long to learn of her son’s fate and see him as a free man, she did something we can all relate to. She told Peter off for wanting to return to work, telling him, “Don’t put us through this again”.
Read more: Finally, Peter Greste has returned to Australia. And the photos are beautiful.
Mama Greste, we love you.
Shocker of the week goes to…
A few months ago, he dropped the c-bomb in Parliament. But he played it off by telling everyone he was actually calling someone a “grub” (any 5 year old will tell you those words don’t sound anything alike).
