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AAP mines Facebook for the dead

Privacy isn’t what it used to be. Even in death, writes Neil Walker.

Campaign lite: Spot the Difference edition

Can you spot the difference between: Electoral ad campaign rebuttals and an Escher drawing? Trade unionists and Pez dispensers? Rudd and Tintin?

The Kevin Rudd tactic: go for the throat

A wonk friend recently made the observation that Kevin Rudd’s tie always matches his background — or at least co-ordinates with it too often, and too neatly, to be the mere product of coincidence. Crikey can report that there might be something in this. Jane Nethercote reports.

Cats keep the lid on … for good reason

They are four games clear at the top of the ladder and have long had the minor premiership sewn up. Yesterday’s win over the Kangaroos was the club’s 15th in a row. Their injury list is small and their good players are, as they say on TV these days, up and about. They have the Brownlow Medal favourite in Gary Ablett and three of the leading four possession-winners in the league – Jimmy Bartel, Joel Corey and Gary Ablett – controlling their midfield.