The ABS finds that environmental impact is the least considered factor by Aussies when purchasing a car, why criminals should wait until after an election to apply for parole, Rudds spinners spin out of control, and more from Richard Farmer.
Articles by Richard Farmer 
Political snippets: Australians prefer pretty cars to green ones
Political snippets: Paying for a selection mistake
When a government asks a group largely representative of major team sports to determine where the emphasis of sporting policy should be put, that government should not be surprised that major team sports get the favoured nod.
Political snippets: Who needs Newspoll?
Who needs Newspoll when Crikey readers can predict the poll’s results? ABC Online readers’ lightweight tastes, and a judge rules that Scrabbl is a “game” — not a toy or a puzzle.
Political snippets: Climate change, coast to coast
Australia’s Department of Climate Change has finally started seriously looking at future options for when Australia’s temperature rises, and further evidence of global warming from the US.
Political snippets: Bring back those fluorocarbon sprays — the Antarctic ice needs them
Ice coverage in the Arctic is declining at a frightening rate while in the Antarctic, there has been a small but steady growth; Gordon Brown enacts some sweet revenge on Rupert Murdoch; and the US forms a Gang of Four.
Political snippets: Adelaide’s panda diplomacy
Giant pandas Wang Wang and Fu Ni arrive in Adelaide Zoo, while zoos in India are about to set all their elephants free. Plus our “pick the Newspoll” competition.
Political snippets: Rudd’s Indian diplomacy to be tested
Diplomacy to be tested … A good time to have something else on his mind … A glutton for interest rate punishment … Words of wisdom from on high
Political snippets: In praise of Gary Morgan’s common sense
Richard Farmer wishes the Morgan Poll had the same influence on journalists as Newspoll does today, marvels at the literal expansion of Uganda, hugs some babies and takes a punt on the future of sports betting.
Political snippets: Bob Hawke says “cheese” with some smiling former assassins
A happy snap of former PM Bob Hawke surrounded by the folks who ousted him from office shows time heals all wounds, the aesthetic costs of wind turbines, no outliers in the Crikey Election Indicator, and a thumbs up for the new Oz design.
Political snippets: Another one from that Liberal playbook
Some good old fashioned “wasting taxpayer dollars!” outrage at the Oz, the Victorian Liberal Party goes into early election mode, Obama’s brother writes a book, and why green is the new religion.
Political snippets: El Nino looking more and more likely
Time to start taking the idea of another El Nino seriously, some good advice from Peter Costello, and Argentina’s President lays the boot into the coutry’s media with free soccer games.
Political snippets: A firm favourite at 2.30pm
The Crikey Interest Rate Indicator is still predicting a 0.25% rise today, today’s Newspoll looks a bit suss, and Chechnya’s race horse-owning President Ramzan Kadyrov takes aim.
Breakfast Media Wrap: Some tabloid bank bashing and broadsheet leadership speculation
The pick of Monday morning’s media
Breakfast Media Wrap: Political love birds, a busted Coalition and a paranoid Premier
The pick of Sunday morning’s media
Breakfast Media Wrap: PM gets called a bit grubby as stand-off on the high seas continues
The pick of Saturday morning’s media
Political snippets: The Barossa’s approach to a crushing problem
The beleaguered Australian wine industry gets some relief with the news that the crush during this year’s vintage was 5% less than in 2008, a cautionary tale from Paul Krugman, and why we’re still not “closing the gap”.
Breakfast Media Wrap: Ugandan argument over gays – hang them or jail them?
The pick of the morning’s media
Political snippets: Voters get older while participants get younger
As voters in Western democracies get get older, the participants seem to be getting younger, Asterix turns 50, why there’s no reason for inflation panic, and more from Richard Farmer.
Breakfast Media Wrap: Australia to be a polluter’s paradise
The pick of Sunday morning’s media
Breakfast Media Wrap: Some right wing views on television – the BBC and Fox News versions
The pick of the morning’s media
