TOP STORIES

• Keane’s Talking Points: This election is now the Liberals’ to lose.
• Somber outlook as Macquarie share price continues to founder.

POLITICS

• Tips and rumours: dodgy insulation standards
• Obama the singing president
• ABC’s Mark Scott: and now for the good news
• Has Kevin Rudd oversold himself?
• News Ltd gets Publisher’s Cup flick amid sledging furore, score tampering call
• Let Tony Martin tickle your fancy
• Free TV handouts: we don’t know the half of it
• Jobs jump sets RBA alarm bells ringing
• The so-called “market experts” get it wrong again
• Manningham battles Westfield, makes Parliament and tabloids
• Climate change and polls, journalism and responsibility
• Human rights: why we need a charter
• Congressman Charlie Wilson’s war is finally over
• Unemployment falls as stimulus is withdrawn

FIRST DOG ON THE MOON

• Journalists have memories like goldfish. Discuss.

MEDIA

• Anti-scientologists hack Oz govt sites … Iran suspends Gmail … Seven’s next gen broadband …
• Seven romps it in
• A tale of drinking, driving and bloody idiots

BUSINESS

• Wall St down, Oz market up
• US Treasury boss goes into bat (and print) for himself
• Business As Usual: Poor little rich Foxtel, carping over BHP

COMMENTS, CORRECTIONS, CLARIFICATIONS & C*CK-UPS

• The legal drinking age: stout Crikey readers whine

EDITORIAL

• Rudd as balloon head