The bizarre dispute over the government’s appointment of David Gonski, rather than Peter Costello, to the chairmanship of the Future Fund has been spun as another example of Labor incompetence.
Columns / Crikey Says
The daily Crikey Daily Mail editorial.
The most alarming line in the State of the Climate report
The joint State of the Climate report should have us all alarmed.
The facile theatre of question time
“It is not the intention of the Australian government to bring to the parliament any legislation dealing with voluntary euthanasia. Of course, in the parliament, parliamentarians as individuals have their rights, and if someone wanted to bring such a proposition as a private member’s bill, that is possible, but the Australian government has no intention […]
Wealth in the eye of the beholder
New polling from Essential Research today explores the thorny subject of income and class. What strongly emerges is that how much you make tends to determine how you view your own wealth and that of others.
Demonstrate public interest in Rinehart
Gina Rinehart lost her bid to appeal to the High Court to maintain a suppression order around a legal dispute with her children. The media will proceed to report the details of what will prove a nasty and fascinating spat.
Stupid, angry people
For some reason the mob of stupid, angry people have failed to really get ignited about the revelations of widespread abuse that have come out of the Australian Defence Force in the past 24 hours.
All Swan needs now is an Akubra and some chinos
Wayne Swan has had his John Howard moment. There are all sorts of caveats attached but this is what it boils down to: Swan’s Press Club address made for good politics.
Qld needs a hero … is it Can Do Campbell?
Forget “clear air” for Julia Gillard, finally the Queensland election can have its time in the sun. And the LNP got in fast with an unusually early campaign launch at the Brisbane Convention Centre yesterday.
Wayne Swan gets lippy
We like that the Treasurer is getting lippy, but given the success of that “infamous billionaires’ protest”, launched off the back of a flat bed truck, it’s a case of too little too late.
Crikey says: looks like rain
“Miracles do happen! Sun shining in London,” Rupert Murdoch tweeted last month…
Labor infighting and the spoils of office
The Labor infighting over the Senate vacancy created by the departure of Mark Arbib demonstrates why the party’s problems run far deeper than Kevin Rudd and his alleged destabilisation.
Crikey says: we’ll cop most criticism, but not sexism, not this time
Many of you certainly aren’t copping criticism of Gillard’s record, especially from our own Bernard Keane. But to suggest that his criticism is misogynist?
Labor’s lingering smell
In the unlikely event that the Labor party manages to unite after all this, the collateral damage from this flare up will have lasting damage.
Labor’s problems cut deeper than Rudd
Labor’s problems much run deeper than Kevin Rudd.
Ending the soap opera
“The truth is the Australian people regard this whole affair as little better than a soap opera and they are right. And under current circumstances, I won’t be part of it.”
Check your maths, and your letterbox
You can learn a lot from digging through 12 years worth of Australian Electoral Commission filings …
Gonski review not about rich v poor
The policy debate around both education and health should not be about rich versus poor.
Welcome to all-out warfare, care of Labor
You don’t like it, you detest it in fact, but sorry people, this is real and this is happening.
Recipe for a beat-up
Start with the headline, and work backwards. Pick a theme. In this case, riff off the idea of a game show giveaway.
Stacking up job loss headlines against figures
Perhaps it’s best to channel Ross Gittins’ steel trap mind as you confront twin headlines about Qantas layoffs alongside the ABS’s surprise January’s unemployment figures.
Props to the government for good policy
As a health measure, the private health insurance rebate has been one of the most extraordinary wastes of taxpayer funding in modern Australian history. As middle class welfare, it has been a great success.
The sub-atomic realm of federal politics
See Four Corners last night? You know, the program that everyone’s been talking about for weeks, hinting at how nervous Labor insiders were at the idea that The Comeback Kid [insert question mark here] would fuel leadership speculation.
The Sun will never set on Rupert
There’s just no way Rupert Murdoch would kill his baby, the red top that’s by far and away his best-selling paper, the 10th biggest-selling paper in the world with a whopping 2.7 million in circulation.
All roads lead to Queensland
Brace yourselves as Queensland becomes the centre of the political universe …
