Commentariat
Christian Kerr is the National Affairs Editor of Crikey and has been with us since day one. He is a former adviser to two federal cabinet ministers and a state premier and has worked in corporate relations.
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Richard Farmer is a veteran Canberra political journalist and former campaign tactition for Bob Hawke.
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Guy Rundle is a former editor of Arena Magazine, a writer of three shows with Max Gillies and a producer of some truly awful television. His short book The Opportunist said about John Howard in 2001 what 60% of the population are saying now.
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Mungo MacCallum has been writing about politics for most of the last forty years and still thinks it matters. This is his 17th federal election.
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David Flint is an Emeritus Professor of Law, a former Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority, President, English Speaking Union and National Convenor of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy.
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John Hewson is an economist. He was federal leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1990 to 1994, and led the party to defeat at the 1993 federal election.
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Peter Brent is publisher of www.mumble.com.au, a website devoted to Australian politics. He is also a PhD student at the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU.
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David MacCormack is a failed public servant and lapsed blogger.
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Possum Comitatus is what happens when marsupials drink too much, start playing with econometric software and have delusions of psephological grandeur.
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William Bowe is a 36-year-old PhD student at the University of WA and publisher of one of Australia’s most widely read political websites, The Poll Bludger (www.pollbludger.com).
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Charles Richardson has a PhD in ethics and political philosophy; he worked as an adviser to the Kennett government, and later as editorial manager at the Centre for Independent Studies. He has been an election analyst for Crikey since 2002.
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Dr Norman Abjorensen teaches politics at the ANU, is a former national editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, political editor of the Sunday Herald and a senior writer at The Age and Canberra Times.
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Mark Bahnisch is a sociologist who lectures at Griffith University and QUT. He is a regular writer for Crikey, New Matilda and On Line Opinion, and covered the 2006 Queensland election for Crikey. He blogs at Lavartus Prodeo.
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Margaret Simons is a freelance journalist and author. Her book “The Content Makers, Understanding the Media in Australia” was launched by Penguin in September this year.
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Adam Kilgour is the Executive Chairman of CPR and a former adviser to Cabinet Ministers in the Victorian and Commonwealth Governments.
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Wayne Errington is Associate Lecturer in Political Science at the Australian National University and co-author of John Winston Howard: the Biography.
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Jeff Sparrow is the editor of Overland.
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Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter, blogger, radio host and gadabout. She occasionally makes Jennifer Byrne’s life a misery on the ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club.
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Ian Smith is a communications strategist and Executive Chairman (Australia) of Gavin Anderson & Company. He was a media advisor to the Kennett Government and previously worked with the South Australian Liberal Party.
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Helen Razer is pushing 40. She is deliberately barren but, perhaps, a little too lexically productive. Yes, she needs a good sub-editor.
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Since being awarded the degree of Master of Philosophy from Sydney University in 2003 Paul Comrie-Thomson has worked as a full-time writer and broadcaster. He is co-presenter, with Michael Duffy, of ‘Counterpoint’ on ABC Radio National.
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