This week’s Essential Report looks at opinions of party leaders. For all the speculation about Rudd and the leadership, it actually turns out that Rudd is seen as better than Abbott to lead their respective parties, says Possum Comitatus.
June, 2010
What would you like to ask Pat McGorry about mental health?
Melissa Sweet has the chance to interview Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry on mental health. What should she ask? Croakey regulars give their ideas, but we’d love to hear yours.
Most women pay dearly for making sexual harassment complaints
A turning organisational wheel always crushes the whistleblower. No wonder so many women just leave instead of complaining about sexual harassment, writes barrister Moira Rayner.
NBN not over the line yet
Yesterday’s agreement, as explained by NBN Co and Telstra, certainly delivers a certain amount of clarity, but certainly not certainty. Either Telstra or NBN Co can bail out any time they like.
Crikey Clarifier: The danger of aviation in Africa
What happened to the Sundance Resources miners while flying over West Africa? Ben Sandilands looks at the shreds of evidence in reports, and the context of Africa’s dangerous aviation game.
Essential: Labor pulls back some support, but new leaders would help both sides
Labor retains its small leader in this week’s Essential Report poll, but its bad news for both Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Voters want to see the back of both of them.
NT intervention three years on: government’s progress report is disturbing
Today we are halfway through the Howard government’s original normalisation phase for the NT intervention and the latest six-monthly report is both serious and disturbing, writes Professor Jon Altman.
Business As Usual: UK spending cuts means days of whine and rises … Apple hits new high …
Britain joins the austerity club tomorrow night with about £85 billion of spending cuts. Plus, iPhone orders lift Apple’s worth again, US banks continue to fail and other business news of the day.
Caveats aside, Telstra deal is a big win for Rudd
It’s only a heads of agreement, and subject to further extensive negotiation, but the NBN-Telstra-Government deal isolates the Opposition and the government can claim a legitimate win.
Rudd, Abbott reach out to right-wing churches as Australians shun them
Kevin Rudd gave two specific yet covert commitments to JimWallace of the Christian Lobby in 2007 in the hope of attracting Christian voters: banning gay marriage and censoring the internet, writes Brian Greig.
Mungo MacCallum: Rudd and Abbbot a case of double disillusion
It will take a mighty effort indeed in his second term if Kevin Rudd is ever to recapture that first rapture of the heady Kevin07 days. And Tony Abbott will need to mature considerably if he is to be given a second chance.
On mental health, the Rudd government just isn’t listening
With a “deep sense of disappointment” Professor John Mendoza resigned as chair of the federal government’s National Advisory Council on Mental Health. And many others in the mental health sector share his abject lament.
Alex Hawke slams party rivals over Young Lib fracas
Federal Member for Mitchell Alex Hawke has slammed a ruling of the NSW Liberal Party’s disputes panel, claiming he was vindicated in shutting down a rowdy Young Liberals meeting last September at his electorate office attended by police.
DJs ticks all the boxes in action on McInnes scandal
The CEO and board of David Jones are to be commended for their quick and appropriate response to the Mark McInnes scandal. It’s a rare example of a large corporation hitting the mark in a corporate governance sense.
2010 election: Labor’s challenge bigger than just beating Abbott
It’s no longer Tony Abbott versus Kevin Rudd. It’s several large, wealthy transnational companies — Rio Tinto, BHP-Billiton, Xstrata, News Ltd — versus Labor.
Daily Proposition: Talk politics to your toaster with the West Wing-like comic
Ex Machina is like The West Wing in comic book form; fun, exciting, and completely ludicrous in the way all great superhero comics should be, writes White Noise blogger Dan Barrett.
Mendoza to Crikey: Rudd’s mental health approach Python-esque
Last month, in the wake of the government’s hospital funding agreement with the states, John Mendoza wrote a scathing critique of the Rudd government’s approach to mental health .
Poll bludger: Penrith by-election proves Keneally’s not enough
It is possible that, buried in some such dark and dusty place, there might be found details of a by-election defeat as bad for a major political party as the one suffered by New South Wales Labor in Penrith on Saturday.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Rudd has a narrative?
Crikey readers weigh in on Rudd’s communication strategy and how Australia compares to Sweden when it comes to paid parental leave.
Media briefs: Murdoch’s play for government TV … ABC in lockstep with News …
Rupert Murdoch makes a play for our international channel. Plus, mistaken identity at the Tele, John Mangos trumpets a house fire and other media tidbits of the day.
Morning Market Report: A strong start to the week
The big news over the weekend was China agreeing to end the two year peg of the Yuan to the US dollar. The People’s Bank of China will allow more flexibility in their exchange rate but ruled out a significant one-off revaluation.
This day in Crikey: Thursday, 21 June, 2007
Thursday, 21 June, 2007, “Justice in Deep North perhaps not as colour-blind as it should be”, by Greg Barns.
Political snippets: Get set to be shown the bore
There we were sitting in the Canberra press gallery hoping for one last good week of leadership speculation. And along comes Newspoll and ruins it all. Plus, declaring political interest and other political snippets.
Video of the Day: Get out of there!
Sometimes the internet is so brilliant, even if it is just to provide a montage proving that all Hollywood scriptwriters rely on exactly the same line. Now, get the hell out of there!
