And the award for the most mixed metaphors in a political news release…

… goes to the Australian Liberal Party for this fine effort:

Gillard removes final brick in Howard’s wall on border protection and swings door open to boats.

Remove final brick from wall? OK. (Though strictly speaking if there was only one brick left to remove, what you had before wasn’t a wall. It was a brick. With pretensions to being a wall.)

This causes door to swing open. (Don’t ask what’s holding the door up so it can swing. Not a wall. Or a brick. Presumably, it was a gust of wind from the moving brick that swung the door. Or a stray elbow.)

… and then a boat sails through. (The magically suspended door and the brick with grand self-visions of being a wall were both in the water, of course.)