What is really signficant is the way people are talking about this shindig indicates that no-one has really thought out how this thing is going to work, or not, writes Guy Rundle.
2020 Summit
Age editor Jaspan no longer a 2020 player
Just when Fairfax management was looking intransigent, there seem to be signs of movement behind the scenes, reports Margaret Simons.
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Was it management pressure what done it? Or just a sudden burst of common sense?
Health debate must move beyond hospital crash repairs
It will be a wasted opportunity if the 2020 Summiteers can’t broaden the health debate beyond hospitals and health education, writes Professor Fran Baum.
My 2020 idea: Stop funding ineffective medical treatments
It is well past time that Australian taxpayers stopped paying for medical treatments that don’t work or are of only marginal benefit, writes Professor Peter Brooks.
Rudd’s 2020 ringmaster no stranger to cut and thrust
Guess who’s in charge of running Kevin Rudd’s festival of egos and lobbyists? Greg Barns has the answer.
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Vale John Button … Indigenous s-xual abuse … the Olympic Torch … Zimbabwe … Rudd’s 2020 Summit … peak oil … Gerard Henderson …
2020 Summit: More secret squirrel
There’s plenty of secret squirrel stuff about the 2020 Summit, reports Bernard Keane.
Summit’s health briefing paper next to useless
The background paper intended to guide health discussions at the 2020 Summit is now available here, and the news is not encouraging, writes Melissa Sweet.
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Mugabe and Zimbabwe … Rudd’s 2020 Summit … Peter Costello … Daily Tele v the RBA … Rudd’s salute …
Fancy dancers rule in Rudd’s summit of the elites
There’s simply no getting around the fact that Rudd’s 2020 Summit is elitist. Unambiguously, unashamedly so. That’s the point of it, after all – to bring together the “best and the brightest”, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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Rudd’s salute at NATO … ABC complaints … Rudd’s 2020 Summit … the AMA … lobbyists and pork … carbon caps and gas emissions …
2020 Summit: Will there be getting-to-know-you games?
So at Crikey we’ve been trying to work out how the 2020 summit will actually run, writes Bernard Keane.
A marketplace for meretricious mendicancy
If you thought the 2020 Summit was going to be something more than an opportunity for rent seeking lobbyists and proselytisers to push their barrows and grind their axes, then think again, writes Greg Barns.
Rudd’s 2020 Summit: Who will fart in church?
Who will criticise Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Summit, if criticism is to be done? asks Margaret Simons.
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2020 Summit … Wayne Carey … Rudd and Russell Crowe … Earth Hour … household debt … justice for all …
The AMA doesn’t need a seat at the 2020 Summit
No-one likes missing out on a party, but only the AMA can turn its failure to score an invite to the 2020 Summit into a national news story, writes Jennifer Doggett.
Tips and rumours
Apparently, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet have asked for volunteers within its Department to take notes at the 2020 summit. That’s volunteers … i.e. unpaid work over a weekend. They are selling it as a great development/career opportunity. Fabulous! Those hoping for a night of the long knives scenario in the senior ranks […]
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The 2020 guestlist reads like Lateline Christmas party without Tony Jones.
Wanted: Canberrans to host celebrity 2020 Summiteers
The Government will offset the 2020 Summit’s running costs by auctioning off the right to host some of the event’s high-profile participants, reports Bernard Keane.
2020 Summit snubs over-75s and Queenslanders
So who are these 1,000, or should we say 890, people? wonder Possum Comitatus and Jane Nethercote.
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Earth Hour … The 2020 Summit … Doctors and the drug industry … Arukun and The Australian … Rudd and Blairite spin … Rundle on George W. Bush …
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Hugh Jackman? Well thank goodness.
Summit tale: I got picked for 2020 (but not in the cool group)
When it comes down to it, I suspect that being an economist at this Summit is not the ‘cool’ area, writes Joshua Gans.
2020 vision: Glyn Davis reveals the lucky (semi-female) 1000
Professor Glyn Davis — 2020 Summit chair and University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor in his spare time — today announced the completion of the selection process for the summit, writes Zoe Barron from the University of Melbourne.
