There was her TV appearance on Dancing with the Stars, the Aussie version of Strictly Come Dancing, and last year raunchy pictures, supposedly taken of her more than three decades ago, were widely circulated in the Australian press (they turned out to be fake).
Are we a bunch of animals who lob beer cans at asylum seekers (what Hopkins described in her column as the "Aussie version of sharia stoning") or is there more to the story?
"They threaten them with violence until they bugger off, throwing cans of Castlemaine in an Aussie version of sharia stoning".
Her bluesy hip-hop CD, produced by Butch Vig (Garbage) and Camara Kambon (Eminem), is like an Aussie version of "8 Mile".
It described migrants trying to reach Britain from Calais as "a plague of feral humans", and proposed an Australian approach to boats of "threatening them with violence until they bugger off, throwing cans of Castlemaine in an Aussie version of sharia stoning".
While the Aussie version is being filmed in Africa, the UK version has always been filmed in northern New South Wales.
(An American version of the original 1979 film dubbed over the Aussie accents).
Nevertheless, part of him feared that all he had done was create a rather severe version of "The Sullivans," a television soap opera about a typical Aussie family after the war.
The Bulls capitalised clinically, with their solid Aussie forward Daniel Gartner held up just short of the Wigan line, but Lowes produced rugby league's version of the quarterback sneak to plonk the ball over the whitewash.
The patent-infringing Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the version meant to be distributed in the U.S. According to Samsung's lawyers, the Australian version of the tablet is different, and Apple will have a chance to review three units of the Aussie's Galaxy Tab 10.1 at least a week before Samsung plans to launch the device.
