This morning, we asked our Twitter pals to caption this line-up of Liberal Party funsters.
March, 2009
Sharon Gould hoax: Quadrant and Wilson respond
The March issue of Quadrant is out with a response from editor Keith Windschuttle to the hoax affair that made his previous issue a best seller, writes Margaret Simons.
Public service to become a Kevin 24/7 sweatshop
In the Public Service, when management issues a general call for voluntary redundancies, it’s pretty certain large cuts are on the way, writes Bernard Keane.
Lowbottom High Diaries: Yellow ribbons and buckets of coins
A pall hung over the classroom that first week as our charges came to terms with the fact that there is more to existence than MSN and Facebook, writes Trevor Diogenes.
Hockey stumbles on economics 101
Joe Hockey reckons the federal government is running out of “fuel” to get the economy through the global financial crisis, writes Glenn Dyer.
Victorian bushfires: Australian spirit present
I was also in Marysville that Saturday afternoon. How different my impressions were to Peter Chamber’s, writes Julie Bell.
Media briefs: Paul Harvey dies … 2DayFM gag goes awry …
Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Bank DeathWatch: US tops sweet sixteen
US bank regulators closed two more banks at the weekend, taking the number of failures so far this year to 16, writes Glenn Dyer.
Time for a high income super tax?
Regulation is easier said than done, writes Bernard Keane.
Total fire ban, but not for Brumby’s pet pipeline
Construction on the Victorian government’s pet pipeline project has ploughed ahead all fire sesaon, fire bans or not, writes Andrew Crook.
Some questions for governments on naltrexone implants
Questions remaining over the government funding of naltrexone implants, writes Dr Alex Wodak.
The things we shouldn’t have published about Andrew Bolt
In recent days, comment strings on the new Crikey blog Pure Poison have been too lurid in their attacks on Andrew Bolt, writes Jonathan Green.
Morning Market Report
Marcus Padley reports on the highs and lows of today’s markets.
Manufacturing slumps, but that’s just the good news
Manufacturing is contracting in Australia, just as it is in the US, Japan, Europe and all other major economies, writes Glenn Dyer.
Now showing on the Crikey website
The daily clickthroughs: STUFF WE LIKE: Choose your own knitting granny What’s new on the Crikey blogs: CRIKEY SPORTS: Sports Tour: Hume City vs Altona Magic CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT: Corporate pay greed demoralises employees THE POLL BLUDGER: Some of the news that’s fit to print PINEAPPLE PARTY TIME: Do state governments still matter? THE CONTENT MAKERS: Cuts at […]
Richard Farmer’s political bite sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government by Richard Farmer.
So Conroy’s Rabbit-Proof Firewall is dead… or is it?
While the Greens will presumably hold fast, it’s conceivable that Coalition senators could cross the floor, and Senator Xenophon’s position on almost any issue can be rather, um, flexible, writes Stilgherrian.
