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Columns / Crikey Says
The daily Crikey Daily Mail editorial.
Kim Jong-il, not so funny
It’s easy to laugh at the dearly departed Dear Leader Kim Jong-il.
Crikey says: and the best politician of 2011 goes to …
Today we kick off the 2011 Crikeys with our Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane’s wrap of the best and worst from our politicians in 2011.
If you want to regulate it, pay for it
Stephen Conroy — The Power Index’s number one media maestro — makes some sensible observations about Australian content to Paul Barry.
A failure of imagination
A year on from Australia’s deadliest shipwreck since 1890, we revisited our editorial from December 2010, written, as our opening line states, as they were “still pulling bodies from the water”, as pieces of SIEV221 splintered across the rocks of Christmas Island.
Crikey says: keeping the peace in PNG
As the political situation in Papua New Guinea escalates, allow us to quote at length from The Post-Courier, who urged its citizens — and police force — to remain calm in its editorial.
Attorney-General Roxon’s to-do list
Nicola Roxon’s appointment as Australia’s first female Attorney-General presents several opportunities to address issues handled poorly by Robert McClelland.
Keep reading this, even if it is about Durban
Here it is: all countries have agreed to negotiate by 2015 a single, legally-binding global agreement that will cover all major carbon pollution emitters including the big guns — China, India and the United States.
Crikey says: silly season of cabinet reshuffles
The public doesn’t care who the small business minister is. Labor’s problems run much, much deeper.
Media’s bank-bashing ritual? Bah, humbug
Whatever would we do without a round of bank bashing stories this time of year, when all other news content is reduced to How to Baste Your Turkey and Top Ten Top Tens of 2011…
Crikey says: a very long month in the global economy …
If a week is a long time in politics, then a month in economics is an eternity.
A poke in the eye to both of you
The tensions between Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd are threatening to escalate into real damage to the government.
A nasty set of numbers
A collection of sobering take home points from a consortium of climate scientists and economists from around the world — the Global Carbon Project — and their findings for 2010, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Australian political parties are dying, and fast
Australian political parties are cossetted by compulsory voting, public funding and exemptions in areas such as privacy. But despite those protections, they are dying, and quickly.
Unpicking the arguments around the MDB
A common theory in politics is that if no one’s happy about a particular piece of reform, you’ve got it right. That might play well for the politics, but that can’t be said for the policy when it comes to the latest iteration of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
Picking over the mental health sector spoils
Just 20 years ago the federal government was perceived to have no role in mental health. Fast forward to the 2011/12 budget and the announcement from Julia Gillard of a five-year funding commitment of $2.2 billion.
Just who is benefiting from the resources boom?
Today’s Essential Report illustrates just how badly the Rudd government bungled its case for the Resource Super Profits Tax, and how timid Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan have been on the issue ever since.
Great politics, but a poor outcome
The speaker must be respected, at least to a degree, by both sides. Peter Slipper’s ability to command respect remains in grave doubt.
Crikey says: look past the headlines on ‘Climategate 2′
Look what just popped up, just days out from the UN climate talks in Durban, a fresh batch of leaked emails from the University of East Anglia, in what is being quickly dubbed by some as Climategate mark II.
Three golden radio moments
Three golden moments from radio that have hit the news in the past 24 hours. Take a bow Kyle Sandilands, Ray Hadley and Alan Jones.
One issue that unites across party lines
Today in parliament, in what will kick off the final parliamentary sitting week of the year, Julia Gillard will deliver a statement on the war in Afghanistan.
We are all sandal wearers
Crikey’s media writer Margaret Simons has been live tweeting the proceedings from the media inquiry in Sydney this week. Yesterday she appeared before inquiry head Ray Finkelstein after lodging her own personal submission.
China values its friendship with Austria
The thing is, a trip from the president of the United States makes us feel really, really important.
