The latest Essential poll has the Coalition maintaining its 51-49 lead for a third week running, down a point on the primary vote to 44 per cent with Labor steady on 38 and the Greens up one to 11, writes William Bowe.
November, 2010
Tracking Cancun: keep the Oz delegation accountable
During the talks Phillip Ireland will be working hard to track the Australian delegation as they engage in the negotiating process. So let him know what questions you would like to ask them or comments you want to make sure they hear.
theatre reviews My Stories, Your Emails – Studio, Sydney Opera House
Courageous hardly seems an adequate descriptor for Ursula Martinez’s no-holds-barred, soul-baring, confessional theatre. As a fearless and uncompromising self-portrait, this is almost high art and a work of intensive genius, writes Lloyd Bradford Skye.
The Vic election bomb: commandos raid, documents shred, recriminations begin
There was no bigger symbol of John Brumby’s imminent demise than the scene outside Melbourne’s Treasury Place this morning as hundreds of soon-to-be-sacked staffers huddled nervously as their boss’ private office was raided by anti-terrorism commandos. Andrew Crook reports on the day after the night before.
The Oz v Twitter: tape recording soon to surface
The accuracy of a series of tweets at the centre of a landmark defamation case is about to be proved or disproved, thanks to the release of a tape recording of the conference where the alleged defamation occurred.
Essential: Broadband support strengthens, Labor wedged on gays
Australians think the NBN is important and will benefit the economy, businesses, themselves and their kids, the latest Essential Report reveals. And on gay marriage, Labor finds itself caught between the two sides.
WikiLeaks’ deliberate strategy to hold back content on the Asia-Pacific
While the so-called “cablegate” release has so far provided a tantalising sketch of US interests in our region, it now appears part of a deliberate strategy by WikiLeaks to hold back the actual content of cables related to Asia and the Pacific, writes Luke Miller, blogger at Idle Senate Speculation.
Richardson: what sort of premier will Ted Baillieu make?
Ever since the election of the Rudd government three years ago — indeed, since before then, for it was not an unexpected event — there’s been a view around that it would mean the end of Labor’s domination at state level. Peter Brent has been a particularly persuasive advocate, although I was sceptical at first. But now there can […]
Players say our air-safety standards are good enough
The management mindset that risks the lives of hundreds of Australian air travellers in a crash in the next 10 years is abundantly on display in carrier and regulator submissions to the Senate inquiry into pilot training and airline safety.
Rundle: the world changed this week. And it’s only Monday
When the diplomatic correspondence of an entire nation can be loaded onto a memory stick, then security is only as good as the least ‘dependable’ individual in the whole chain.
Adam Giles, Mike Rann and the slapping lettuce
Notwithstanding the inherent pettiness of two politicians — Mike Rann and Adam Giles — taking pot-shots at each other over a distance of 3000 kilometres, there are some serious issues in contention here.
To whom it may concern: Community sector workers asked to trade pay for budget bottom-line
Enough is enough. Australian workers should not be asked to sacrifice their livelihoods for the social good, write Dr Cassandra Goldie, CEO, Australian Council of Social Service and Marilyn Forsythe, Business and Professional Women Australia.
Future of the National Tally Room again in doubt
While its seven metre-high board of polling figures and swarm of electoral officials may have come to symbolise Australian suffrage, the future of the National Tally Room as the centre of election night may again be in doubt after ABC election numbers guru Antony Green ran into technology issues on Saturday night which meant he could not receive data or offer predictions.
WikiLeaks slammed by Wikipedia co-founder, disrupted by hacker
WikiLeaks’ website is currently offline — not due to excessive traffic but a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Vic Labor confronts the post-Brumby
world
The Victorian Labor Party is preparing for a smooth and uncontroversial leadership transition, with the party’s Socialist Left faction now in a commanding position to install health minister Daniel Andrews after it lost just one MP on Saturday night.
Cancun Calling: no accord likely but good swim-up bar prospects
Cancun is no place for a “coolist”. After the frigid environs of Poland and Denmark for the two previous Conference of the Parties hosted by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 16 is being held in the steamy heat of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, writes Climate Spectator’s Giles Parkinson.
Keane: a partisan paper now wants to silence dissenters
The Australian’s lack of interest in intellectual substance and quality debate has now become an effort to silence them elsewhere. The editor-in-chief’s decision to sue for comments on Twitter is a new low.
Mitchell on defamation: ‘neither the paper nor I would ever sue’
Threats by editor-in-chief of the Australian Chris Mitchell to sue journalism academic Julie Posetti are all bluff.
Hill’s heresy a good role model for Australian banks
Vernon Hill’s business model was almost diametrically opposite to the risky practices of Australian banks, which almost go out of their way to alienate depositors.
Electricity privatisation: Keneally piloting death star that is Labor
NSW Labor is a death star and the Premier’s final undoing will be the reactor at its core — the state’s electricity privatisation plan, writes Candace Sutton.
Victorians heed the NSW and Qld experience, reject a fourth-term govt
Rather than let the rot set in as it did in NSW and Queensland, Victorian voters have opted for a continuation of the same sort of government under new leadership.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Journalists a’twitter about The Oz
Crikey readers have their say.
Morning Market Report: Irish bailout pushes markets down
The EU agreed to provide Ireland with a €85bn bailout.
Daily Proposition: Get some manners, young whippersnappers
What is it today with people? The only place they’d find the words ‘consideration’ or ‘courtesy’ is in the dictionary, and God knows most of them would only know there’s a dictionary at all because they saw it by mistake on a pull-down menu on their computer.
