In recent weeks, the Liberal Party has been quick to blast the Prime Minister as a dictator. And a communist one at that. So how does Rudd stack up against Stalin, Mao and Kim Jong-Il?
Columns / Crossing the Floor with Bernard Keane
Video of the Day: More is less
Bernard Keane takes a look at the first week of the Spring parliamentary session — and discovers nothing happened.
Video of the Day: The rise of the politician writer
Bernard Keane eyes the sudden outbreak of political writing: Wilson Tuckey’s email rant, Tony “rent-a-quote” Abbott’s new book and Rudd’s 6000 words of what the man himself calls “his mediocre prose”.
A week in the House — stimuli and reshuffles
Malcolm Turnbull doesn’t yet understand voters, Joel Fitzgibbon’s shuffled the bench and much more. Crikey’s correspondent Bernard Keane recaps a dramatic week in Australian politics.
One sleep til Budget!
Bernard Keane has a look around the Press Gallery on the eve of the Budget. WARNING: may induce motion sickness
Budget countdown edition
Bernard Keane looks at the forthcoming Commonwealth Budget, with some unusual lighting FX courtesy of Canberra’s weather.
The week of yellow peril
This week, Australian politics was overshadowed by the sinister spectre of Chinese communism.
Video of the Day: Deja vu: another politician kills Kevin’s mojo
With Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon interrupting Kevin Rudd’s time overseas with scandal back home, Bernard Keane reflects on the last time this happened. Clue: it involved an iguana…
Video of the Day: The debut episode
The inaugural episode of the new vodcast from our Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane: Crossing the Floor
