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Christian Kerr

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

Richard Farmer is a veteran Canberra political journalist and former campaign tactition for Bob Hawke.

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Guy Rundle

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

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

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

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

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

David MacCormack is a failed public servant and lapsed blogger.

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Possum Comitatus

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: The Poll Bludger

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

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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Norman Abjorensen

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

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

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

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

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

Jeff Sparrow is the editor of Overland.

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Marieke Hardy

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

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

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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Paul Comrie-Thomson

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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Classic Crikey

Budget night: a triumph of rite over truth

9/05/2007 12:00:00 AM
Guy Rundle writes:

So it is that every year, our shaman gather in Canberra. Like priests before a ritual they are sealed off from the profane world in a special retreat (‘the lock-up’) and bonded together in a sacred pact, which sets them off as a distinct group against the rest of their people.