We share a lot of interests with our antipodean cousins; cricket, rugby, a common law legal system, boozing. We all know the levels of competition that occur when Australians decide to show the Brits how these things are done…

An elite group of Australian policemen from the explosives and hostage negotiation squad are under investigation after it emerged that two of them got out of a van at traffic lights in Brisbane on Sunday and ran around it naked. When the incident was called in by a witness it became apparent that the van was an unmarked police van on its way to a stag party. Slightly more elite than your average British disorderly stag party effort then. Although they could be charged with wilful exposure and public nuisance, and face disciplinary action ranging from a caution to the sack, Queensland’s Police Union president Ian Leavers said "However, I think that many Australians can relate to things that can occur on bucks or hens celebrations."

There’s no beating that sort of boozy bad behaviour one-upmanship unless it emerges that Baroness Scotland went on a pub crawl just before employing her housekeeper.

Buck-naked officers in trouble after boozy stag party [Pretoria News]
Questions over attorney general [BBC]