This week, TIME magazine announced the final ten contenders for their Person of the Year of 2013. The recognition is for the person who the TIME editors decide most influenced the news that year – whether good or bad. (That might explain how Bashar Assad, the President of Syria, made it onto the shortlist this year.)
This is their top ten.
FYI, in the end, Pope Francis was awarded Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2013, narrowly beating out Edward Snowden.
We here at Mamamia decided their list was stupid it might be fun to create our own list of the top ten people who influenced the world Mamamia this year.
These are the politicians and celebrities and media personalities who were featured on Mamamia this year – and the people whom you readers sat up and paid attention to.
So in no particular order… Here are the top ten Mamamia People of the Year.
And this is why we selected each of these people:
Julia Gillard, because we want to thank her for being the first female Prime Minister of Australia. (You might also enjoy 11 cracking quotes from Julia Gillard’s interview with Anne Summers.)
Beyonce, who inspired the Mamamia Team to start a new religion.
Ali ‘Crazy Eyes’ from The Bachelor, who stole our hearts even if she didn’t steal Tim’s.
BatKid, who might just save the world.
Wendy Davis, who stood for 13 hours in pink sneakers to fight for women’s reproductive rights.
Patrick from Offspring, because almost everyone was watching and commiserating together.
Woman Knitting out of her Vagina, who… made a video of herself knitting out of her vagina.
Ja’ime, Private School Girl, who made ‘quiche’ happen.
NASA’s female astronauts, because they inspired us.
Jennifer Lawrence, for this, and this, and this, and this, and when she said that if anyone uses the word ‘diet’ her reaction is to say, ‘You can go f–k yourself’.
This is obviously by no means a comprehensive list, and is a little tongue-in-cheek… So who would you add as a Mamamia Person of the Year finalist? We’d love to know your suggestions.
Top Comments
Ok, a bit of Christmas fun. My picks:
1. Julia Gillard - reasons as below.
2. Penny Wong - still providing a reasonable, unflappable voice in politics. If she'd been PM, we'd never have had the Indonesian debacle.
3. Michael Clarke - has had to put up with crap from the media and public forever. Now that we're actually winning, how about some acknowledgment for his good captaincy?
4. Gruen Planet team. Love the way they dismantle the ad world.
5. Pope Francis. Nothing beats the shake up of a dinosaur of an institution by a visionary from the top. The Borgias would have got rid of him by now ;-)
6. All those amazing researchers who are discovering drugs to cure or relieve the symptoms of our nastiest diseases - and, while I'm thinking about it, shame on our government for slashing the budget of the CSIRO.
7. Jennifer Lawrence,Hailee Steinfeld, Lorde and the others who are saying it like it is and working their talented butts off. I can guarantee I was never that smart and focussed at that age!
8. The kids from the Salvos who play at my train station every morning in December - every bit as cute and dedicated as batkid, and the live music is a great wake up call :-).
9. Childcare workers. This one doesn't need an expanation, does it?
10. My husband. Because.
Tony Abbot for becoming PM, standing up to the Indonesians, not believing the climate change crap, and putting Australia back on track after labour/greens stuff up. Mitchell Johnson for putting balls back into Australian cricket (shame he has tatts though), Tim Cahill for always heading way above his height (shame about tatts though) Greg Inglis a freak of a rugby League player who respectfully stays true to his roots (unlike mundine and SBW shame about the tatts). Lionel Messi, greatest footballer in the world today (doesn’t need tatts). All Australian Defence, Police and Medical personnel, under valued true heroes of our world. My partner Maggie for making our beautiful little girl. Julia Gillard , despite losing the election, had to put up with the evil Rudd, the poisonous greens and a woman hating media. Can hold her head high as the first female PM in Australia. Miranda Devine, nails it every week. Australian women's football under funded, under supported but still out perform the males.