Brace yourselves as Queensland becomes the centre of the political universe …
Columns / Crikey Says
The daily Crikey Daily Mail editorial.
A note of civility, care of Slipper
Parliament’s back in session, and much to the surprise/delight/slight disappointment of the gallery and interested observers, it seems to be proceeding in an orderly fashion.
Swimming to Cyprus
Homs continues to endure an onslaught of rockets and mortars in the regime’s worst massacre of civilians since the uprising in Syria began 11 months ago.
Crikey says: rolling around in the leadership speculation orgy
We published a Labor leadership speculation story last Monday.
Misogyny isn’t why Gillard is in trouble
Is criticism of Julia Gillard’s performance as prime minister sexist, as Bob Brown suggests? Is the current bout of leadership rumbling reflective of the febrile, misogynist minds of male media commentators?
Rinehart and mysterious ways of new media
Our newest media mogul is a keen observer of the online medium. And she’s not a fan.
Shoes over substance
Yes, we’re in. We’re falling in line with every other media schmuck today and giving the quite upmarket shoe brand some more free publicity for what is, it must be said, a genius PR move on their part.
What did we do to deserve this?
“One thing the Labor Party has got to learn is that it doesn’t solve its polling problems by simply changing the leader.”
Compare and contrast
If there’s one thing that the blanket blitz of Tent Embassy coverage lacks, it’s perspective.
Choose your own angle on this Oz Day story
Like a giant national inkblot test for the nation, the “meaning” of yesterday’s events at the Lobby restaurant in Canberra is really what the observer brings to them.
Introducing The People’s Question
Today, Crikey in conjunction with the people at OurSay are launching a new project entitled The People’s Question.
What are you, chicken?
Why didn’t Prime Minister Julia Gillard put a vote to the House of Reps on mandatory pre-commitment? What’s worse: losing a vote and potentially giving voters the idea that Gillard can’t run the government, or reigniting the issue of trust?
Cue the Newt puns, the US primaries just got interesting
What was shaping up as a done deal for Mitt Romney, and quite frankly, a decidedly boring outcome for political junkies everywhere, just got interesting.
Removing race from our constitution
We don’t collectively identify as racist. And yet there is the undeniable reality that our constitution as it stands still contains two sections designed specifically to discriminate.
Doing a Schettino
The captain of the Costa Concordia’s leadership qualities are not unlike the kind we’re seeing from European leaders at the moment.
Super PACs not so funny
The money sunk into super PACs might make Anthony “there’s more where that came from” Ball’s Clubs Australia campaign spend pale in comparison, but our own version of that particular brand of message management isn’t any less effective.
An apple a day …
The Australian Medical Association came out swinging yesterday in response to an article in The Medical Journal of Australia by Dr Tony Webber, a GP who until recently headed the Medicare watchdog.
Time the states harmonised on reform
In December 2009, well into a protracted debate on the need for harmonising occupational health safety regulations, Access Economics prepared an impact statement calculating the economic benefit of bringing state systems into line.
The Arab League has failed Syria
Not merely has the grotesque régime of Bashar al-Assad increased the tempo of its slaughter of protesters and opponents since the Arab League dispatched monitors to the country, but the monitors themselves have been attacked by pro-régime forces.
Nothing Australian about car industry
There’s nothing very Australian about Ford or General Motors, two foreign-owned corporations under extraordinary financial strain.
Gambaro’s immigration solution stinks
Teresa Gambaro clearly encountered a smelly taxi driver or two over the festive period, and that sparked a weird thought bubble in the opposition citizenship spokesperson’s mind.
The good, the bad, and the sexy
It’s the winners of the Crikey Readers’ Choice awards! Lyn White of Animals Australia wins the Crikey Readers’ Choice Person of the Year for 2011. Plus the sexiest pollies.
Playing our part in a global dilemma
While Julia Gillard achieved her “year of decision and delivery” in relation to carbon pricing, health reform and the mining tax, her self-appointed task of resolving the issue of asylum seekers remains unfinished at year’s end.
