The gender bias in scientific studies, plus other political issues of the day.
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ALP LEADERSHIP SPILL
Crikey‘s rolling coverage of the leadership crisis in the Australian Labor Party.
iSentia Index: last hurrah for MPs as Labor self-destructs
Senior Labor MPs went down in a blaze of media coverage after they fell on their swords following the spill that wasn’t.
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Richard Farmer’s chunky bits
The choice of party leader is far too important to be left to parliamentary politicians alone, and other political issues of the day.
READ MOREVale, Simon Crean
Crikey readers bid farewell to Simon Crean, talk Vatican ambassadors and give thanks to First Dog on the Moon.
READ MOREGlenn Dyer’s TV ratings: stop press, there’s a new blood sport on TV
Everyone was all a-flutter on TV yesterday about the leadership spill that wasn’t.
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My Cup of Tea: Crean’s cultural policy in jeopardy
Simon Crean’s suicide mission has left Australia without an arts minister. Is the recently developed cultural policy dead in the water?
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Crean’s coup flops as Rudd fades away
Simon Crean’s impassioned speech this afternoon imploring Kevin Rudd to challenge for the Labor leadership took everyone by surprise — most especially Kevin Rudd.
READ MOREThe key players in their own words
Crikey tracks what the key players said in a dramatic day for the Gillard government.
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‘Take your best shot’: Gillard’s political timeline
From her 2007 election as deputy prime minister to the challenges from Kevin Rudd, Crikey maps Julia Gillard’s political timeline …
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Richard Farmer’s chunky bits
Aussie scientists are wasting time chasing grant money, Canadian pollies are getting stuck into banks for lowering taxes, plus other political issues of the day.
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Twiggy’s big reveal — two years later. So what’s he up to?
Mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has scored an extraordinary PR coup by enlisting two of the nation’s top journalists to turn a two-year-old story.
READ MORELabor and the most important lesson of contemporary history
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREWatch the binaries please, Crikey
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MORELabor spill raises the spectre of leadership primaries
As the Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd leadership spill grew, Australian politics came for a while to resemble a US-style presidential primary, writes Alexandra Lamb, a research assistant for The Age in the press gallery in Canberra
READ MOREBernard’s sandwich-board-of-doom style of fortune-telling
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREA Thatcher moment for Gillard
It somehow seems appropriate that Julia Gillard shared some front pages this morning with a picture of Meryl Streep being rewarded for her portrayal of Maggie Thatcher.
READ MORECrikey says: we’ll cop most criticism, but not sexism, not this time
Many of you certainly aren’t copping criticism of Gillard’s record, especially from our own Bernard Keane. But to suggest that his criticism is misogynist?
READ MORECan Rudd bring about the demise of zombie politics?
Where are the bbbbrrraainnnns? asks Martin Hardie, who argues that the Julia Gillard/Kevin Rudd stoush has exposed the ALP as a ‘zombie party’.
READ MOREThe Artist and Hugo the big winners at the 2012 Oscars
Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist and Martin Scorcese’s Hugo were the top performers at this year’s Academy Awards, snagging five Oscars apiece, reports Luke Buckmaster.
READ MOREEssential: the damage to Labor shows in the polls
Labor’s vote has fallen further as leadership turmoil tore the party apart, new polling from Essential Research shows.
READ MORENo more secrets: Rudd a dud on health reform
In the health arena in 2007 there were great expectations for root and branch reform of the Australian health care system. Kevin Rudd simply wasn’t able to deliver, writes one of his mental health advisers John Mendoza.
READ MOREAnd the winner is … Smith, Shorten or Crean
Kevin Rudd hasn’t merely lost a vote on Labor’s leadership, he has failed to establish himself as the looming replacement for Julia Gillard.
READ MOREAn ALP MP walked into a hair salon …
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MORECome in Spinner: the Greek/Roman/Shakespearean tragedy of Labor
Reading essays and works on 19th and much of 2oth centuries politics it is difficult to avoid the frequent classical allusions and the strong sense of historical context that gave events.
READ MORELabor’s lingering smell
In the unlikely event that the Labor party manages to unite after all this, the collateral damage from this flare up will have lasting damage.
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