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Guy Rundle: Greens will survive the Brown-out
There’s something cruelly ironic about the departure of Bob Brown.
Crikey Says: Milne’s Greens ascension is good news for Labor
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Political snippets: Labor’s false hopes about the Greens
So the ALP is hoping that the retirement of Bob Brown as parliamentary leader of the Greens will give them the chance to claw back votes from those nasty lefties.
Crikey Says: Wielding power in Canberra, a how-to
Today Bernard Keane kicks off his series on the nature of power in Canberra, and who wields it, for The Power Index.
Milne steals the Greens spotlight
Crikey media wrap: Greens figurehead Bob Brown may have resigned on Friday but the weekend’s media has been dominated by Christine Milne asserting herself as the new leader of the Greens.
Brown: our most successful third-party pollie
Bob Brown ends his long and successful parliamentary career with the Greens at the peak of their power. Christine Milne has been handed awesome responsibility.
Qld election: can greenies and farmers unite on CSG?
There has been a call for the Greens and Bob Katter’s Australian Party to swap preferences at the Queensland election, writes Anthony Galloway, a reporter at The Northern Miner in Charters Towers.
Bob Brown and Gillard’s ‘sexist’ commentary
Greens leader Bob Brown has accused male commentators of making sexist criticisms about the Prime Minister. But what about these commentators? asks Richard Farmer.
Essential: both leaders end the year on the nose
Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott end the political year as deeply unpopular leaders, losing the faith of even more voters.
Eight of the best power grabs of 2011
The past year has provided a smorgasbord of power snatching opportunities for those looking to increase their influence. Tom Cowie examines the eight most important ones in Australia.
Carbon tax passes but blood pledge remains
Crikey media wrap: It’s taken years of debates, discussion papers and fallen leaders, but yesterday the senate passed Australia’s first carbon legislation.
Crikey Says: The little carbon tax that could
Now that wasn’t that hard, was it?
Abbott’s gory pledge would be a legal bloodbath
Tont Abbott’s hyperbole has certainly attracted the headlines, but it betrays a curious tactic, writes Fergus Green, a lawyer and policy analyst specialising in climate change.
Beecher: logical for government to fund media diversity
There is no democratic or economic rationale to support suggestions that News Limited should be forced to divest any of its Australian newspapers.
Rundle: why the Right has become frantic about the Greens
Though many rural people still find it culturally and psychologically impossible to get close to the Greens as a party, they are increasingly happy to have them float the measures they would like to see occur
Crikey Says: Nothing you need to know, apparently
Last night Julia Gillard paid a visit to an annual News Limited gathering in Sydney.
The difference between need for News inquiries in UK v Oz
There are inconsistencies in the many and varied calls for inquiries into Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
Push for Oz media probe
Crikey media wrap: Greens leader Bob Brown called for a “full inquiry into the media, both ownership and regulation, in Australia” yesterday, in light of the recent News International phone hacking scandal in the UK.
Media briefs: Our PM Bob Brown … carbon tax poetry … au revier NotW …
The Sydney Morning Herald reveal the true leader of this country. Plus, the final News of the World and other media news of the day.
Carbon tax: key changes reflect the Greens, Garnaut
There are some key changes from Rudd’s CPRS that reflect both the influence of the Greens and Ross Garnaut in its development.
Crikey Says: Beware the vengeful goblins
The Herald Sun infantilised its readers by warning them today of “vengeful goblins” and how Brown was a “threat to democracy”.
podcast Canberra Calling: The WorkChoices reincarnated podcast
This week, Crikey’s Canberra Correspondent Bernard Keane and Crikey editor Sophie Black discuss the return of WorkChoices, Peter Reith’s failed Liberal Party presidency bid and Bob Brown’s report into the foreign ownership of Australia’s mining sector.
Rundle: Greens are outflanking both sides on foreign ownership
The Greens strategic path is obvious, and half-completed. To outflank Labor, march through the heartland, and connect to rural Australians increasingly disturbed by the conflict between farming and mining.
Mitchell and The Oz (part II): ‘it’s now war’ with the government
Several people close to The Australian say the paper is looking strident on many fronts. And as government tensions escalate one declares “it’s now war”. Crikey continues its profile of the national broadsheet under editor Chris Mitchell.
