Goyte Wins 3 Grammy Awards Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten during Question Time. Gotye's triple Grammy triumph in Los Angeles was what Bob Carr might call a "big, juicy, decisive win." Australia hasn't enjoyed such (non-sporting) glory on the international stage since we won the UN Security Council bid last year, so no wonder the government was scrambling to bask in a little of the Gotye glow. On Monday afternoon, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Arts Minister Simon Crean issued a statement in which they both praised the artist for his win and claimed a bit of the credit. "After taking Australia by storm in 2011, the federal government provided Gotye with a $10,000 Australia Council grant to showcase his talents at the CMJ Music Marathon in New York," the statement pronounced. Gotye will land in Canberra on Friday to join Minister Crean and officially open the 'Fractured Heart' interactive sculpture at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. In other words: we saw him first. Coming so soon after the outing of the new prime-ministerial glasses, one can only conclude that Labor is deadly serious about courting the hipster vote. Watch this space. Next thing you know, government MPs will be eschewing Comcars and suits for fixie bikes and scraggy beards. In question time, Gotye provided inspiration of a slightly different nature. His winning single Somebody That I Used to Know is about former lovers who despite better (kinder, gentler) intentions, hate each others' guts and have very different takes on who is the bigger bastard. On Monday, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott began the Coalition's song, which consisted of a chorus - "You promised a surplus and then you didn't" - and verses along the lines of "The mining tax made no money." Gillard led the Labor choir, which sang lustily about what the government was doing to "protect working families." Then, Workplace Minister Bill Shorten took the lead, rocking out over Abbott's suggestion that he was a mate of employees. While introducing a bill on Monday morning to impose tougher penalties on officials who misuse union funds, Abbott had opined that the "real friends" of Australian workers were on his side of the Parliament. "I love it when Tony Abbott ... reminds everyone, as he did today, he's the workers' best friend," Shorten sang, mustering the kind of bitter scepticism that would make Gotye proud. With friends like him, you don't need enemies!