Once, journalists guarded their stories fiercely, and the idea of competing with another media outlet, let alone doing a joint operation, would have been anathema. Things have changed.
Australian wheat board
Mungo MacCallum: Should Abbott have been sacked? Yes, if you apply Abbott’s logic on Garrett
There is no doubt that the insulation plan was something of a shemozzle. It was basically a good idea, but rushing it out on a massive scale as part of the economic stimulus package meant that there was not adequate preparation.
Milne: Garrett’s killed more than the Iraq War
Peter Garrett is responsible for four deaths, but PM Rudd will protect him out of fear of Tony Abbott. This despite Rudd calling for Alexander Downer’s blood for a lesser incident, recalls Glenn Milne.
AWB victory edges closer
AWB constitutional reform is looking more likely by the day with John Anderson’s statement in support yesterday a major milestone given he created the farmer gerrymander in the first place, writes Stephen Mayne.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Last night’s edition of Four Corners was instructive but there are other things the Howard Cabinet didn’t understand…
The sorry saga of reconciliation
The Rudd government’s handling of the sorry saga over an apology and payment of compensation to members of the Stolen Generation represents both a step forward and a step backward. And as any fifth grader will tell you, that adds up to not much progress at all.
The Walkleys: pleasanter than last year
Funny old things, award nights. Great for back-biting, back-slapping, back-sliding, and even back flips, writes Margaret Simons.
Will Mark Vaile take a lie detector test over AWB?
Peter Warner, a farmer from Nabiac, told Mark Vaile he would pay $5,000 to Legacy if the Nationals leader took a lie detector test over AWB. So will he?
Crikey Bias-o-meter: The newspapers
The market is too small to support newspapers that don’t play to the centre ground, so the Crikey bias-o-meter has had to be finely calibrated. In a marketplace full of bland centrist publications and carefully mixed stables of commentators, small deviations can look extreme.
