Comments on: Saint Kevin’s mortal sin

By: Adele Massey

Adele Massey — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I think that your comment about Gillard’s hairstyle is seriously trivial, I thought this was supposed to be about serious political comment. Please leave her hairstyles out of it!

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Who cares indeed. The Liberals’ financial links with Richard Pratt are far more worthy of close examination. They make Rudd’s little dalliance with WA’s Arthur Daley pale into insignificance.

By: Heather Jones

Heather Jones — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Crikey is getting as desperate as the Opposition in trying to find something useful to say. Go and find some real stories rather than making a mountain out of a molehill.

By: Lynda Hill

Lynda Hill — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

This is so incredibly irrelevant and boring…. you are starting to sound like the MSM (main stream media)… get some real news going - please!!!

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Oh Crikey! two MSM (thanks Lynda:)) in one day. JWH was in bed with every shonk artist in the country. Shrieks of silence. Rudd meets Brian Burke and cries of rape from one bored journo. Give over.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Are we turning tabloid?
Or perhaps just lazy.
Lets have some worthwhile NEWS!

By: David Hornsby

David Hornsby — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Articles like this caused me to stop my subscription to Crikey.
It’s now sinking to tabloid level. PLEASE, GIVE US SOME REAL NEWS AND IMPORTANT INSIGHTS, not this rubbish.

By: Tony Papafilis

Tony Papafilis — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

By how many votes did Kevin Rudd beat Kim Beazley in the Lbor leadership challenge? It was not many & clearly the switch from Beazley to Rudd by Labor’s WA MPs under sway of the Burke / Reynolds faction was decisive. Understand now the Kev - Brian link?

By: James

James — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

A role of the media is inform the public of issues in the public interest. I think reporting PM Rudd’s dealings with a convicted crimminal warrant such coverage. If it was Howard that had such dealings with Rudd would there be such wailing?

By: Kevin Charles Herbert

Kevin Charles Herbert — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

To the stake with him!!! (I mean Christian Kerr). Admittedly, Monday’s Crikey edition will mostly be a bit light on for real stories. Maybe Christian could follow Glenn Milne’s Sunday Tele offering or P.F.S. Ackerman’s
ramblings.

By: Frank Birchall

Frank Birchall — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

A reminder that Brian Burke has served his time and is entitled to the presumption of innocence unless and until he is charged with and found guilty of other crimes. The media of course doesn’t give a rat’s about this inconvenient truth.

By: Stephen Darragh

Stephen Darragh — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

“… compromise their integrity in pursuit of power”? Oh come ON. No one gets to be PM without dissolving a few bodies in barrels of acid. How the government does its job is infinitely more important that the “character” of its members.

By: John James

John James — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Corrupt he may be, but Burke is enormously influential within WA Labor. That is why he’s causing them such a headache and why Rudd needed his backing. Rudd had his eyes wide open. This reflects on Rudd’s poor political judgement.

By: Patricia Weston

Patricia Weston — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

What rubbish. Lift your game.

By: Mallika

Mallika — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

In total agreement with David Hornsby. I have stopped my subscription as Crikey is getting closer to the Daily Tele.

By: gerard donaghy

gerard donaghy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

‘BURKE’ the name says it all really, doesn’t it? Where anyone gets the idea that political types are squeaky clean- non inhalers of Pot is beyond me. Self aggrandizing, scheming Turds, almost to a man/woman.
Serving the will of the people? - My arse.

By: James Kenny

James Kenny — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

It was not particularly smart to agree to meet BB and Rudd clearly is smart. However it is hardly an indictable offense. The real question: Are the emails that have come to light now consistent with KR’s dismissive explanations from last year?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Brian who CARES? It seems that the only people in this country remotely interested in this topic are the Canberra gallery and… no just the Canberra gallery!!! Is there such paucity of worthwhile news that the pundits are reduced to this?

By: b.crooks

b.crooks — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

For god`s sake, who really gives a stuff if rudd has been in contact with Brian Bourke, the reason nobody reads the telegraph is because of the biased idiots like ackerman, don`t let kerr`s right wing ideolegy ruin crikey as well .

By: Venise Alstergren

Venise Alstergren — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Oh Crikey! two MSM (thanks Lynda:)) in one day. JWH was in bed with every shonk artist in the country. Shrieks of silence. Rudd meets Brian Burke and cries of rape from one bored journo. Give over.

By: Barry Isaac

Barry Isaac — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Write something that matters, instead of the bullshit the New’s mob write.
Let he without sin case the first stone.

By: Tony Papafilis

Tony Papafilis — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Howard was denounced as a liar without any proof required. Rudd is exposed as a liar over several issues yet the left no longer care. Remember Rudd fronted media for 45 minutes over Burke & now we know he lied for 45 minutes about an accidental meeting.

By: Rosalie

Rosalie — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

So boring! I could n’t care less…its ancient history.

By: Max Dumais

Max Dumais — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Honestly, who cares! If Burke had helped Rudd make the move to leader of the Labor party and eventual Prime Minister it could only help his ‘Karma’ in the long run. As for Rudd, thankfully, he’s got better things to do than worry about yesterday’s smear.

By: CB

CB — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

REPENT YOU LABOR VOTERS……… REPENT