Ray Hadley writes: Strange old world – I haven’t been able to crack it for a chat with Immigration Minister for more than 18 months. Chris Bowen goes and all of a sudden, with an election on the horizon, Brendan O’Connor wants to come into the studio and have a yarn. And if that’s not enough, my staff got a phone call this week from the PM’s Scottish spin doctor John McTernan wanting to know if I wanted to catch up for a beer. I rarely drink and if I do it’s with close mates and family, not someone trying to butter me up because he knows the government is dead and buried in western Sydney.