Julia Gillard Has Turned Up In A Clickhole Quiz As “A Congressman From Colorado,” For Some Reason

Julia Gillard is many things — a former Prime Minister, the target of more then one person’s fair share of right-wing craziness, the name Kevin Rudd whispers to himself over and over before he falls asleep like Arya Stark. She’s kept a relatively low profile since being ousted as PM in 2013, occasionally resurfacing to headline a talk at the Opera House or review the latest season of Game of Thrones for the Guardian (no, really).

Apparently, though, Gillard has been leading a double life. Yesterday Onion sister site Clickhole published a choose-your-own-adventure game titled “You’ve Been Elected To Congress! Can You Pass Even One Goddamn Bill?” (spoiler: you cannot, and you may end up killing a member of Congress. Also, your father dies.) About a third of the way through, just after you’ve moved your first bill but before the representative from Arizona asks you to add an amendment “providing significant tax incentives to Americans who get surgery to install a tiny little gun at the back of their throat,” you come to this page:

While Julia Gillard is very qualified and experienced in the political sphere, she fills none of the criteria required of “a congressman from Colorado,” considering she is neither from Colorado nor a man. Her inclusion seems a little too obscure to be a joke, even for a famously in-jokey site like Clickhole; it’s pretty unlikely its mainly American audience would recognise a former Australian Prime Minister, because outside Australia who would, honestly.

You can play the game here, and if my boss asks how I found this out, it was through rigorous investigative reporting and my tireless commitment to getting scoops, not because I was fucking around on Clickhole instead of doing my job.