A Sting in the Tale

A Sting in the Tale is a 1989 Australian political satire film directed by Eugene Schlusser and starring Diane Craig and Gary Day. Plot Diane Lane (Diane Craig) is elected to Canberra as an MP. Her married lover, Barry Robbins (Gary Day), is Minister for Health and her best friend is journalist Louise Parker (Lynne Williams). Barry wants to depose the current Prime Minister and tries to enlist the support of media baron Roger Monroe (Edwin Hodgeman). However Diane is angry at Monroe for suppressing news of negligence in a mining disaster which killed her father and twenty others. Diane leaks a document to embarrass the government about its plans for media ownership. The Prime Minister appoints her as Minister to the Arts in order to control her.