Bob Brown and Gillard’s ‘sexist’ commentaryGreens leader Bob Brown has accused male commentators of making sexist criticisms about the Prime Minister. But what about these commentators? asks Richard Farmer.
Bob Brown
Follow Crikey’s latest coverage of Australian Greens leader Bob Brown. Crikey’s Bob Brown coverage includes independent news, blogs and commentary.
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.
Bob Brown v the media
In an illuminating interview with politics professor John Keane, Bob Brown canvasses a range of subjects including the quality of the climate change debate and his war on News Limited’s “hate media.”
Denmore: Journos ought to remember that accountability needs to be across the board
Bob Brown’s recent spat against News Limited is the most recent proof that journos don’t take kindly to criticism. News organisations need to hold politicians to account, but accountability needs to be across the board, writes Mr Denmore.
News’ revenge: editorial pages rain down on Brown’s crusade
News Limited has struck back against claims by Bob Brown it is misrepresenting the climate change debate, accusing the Greens leader on its editorial pages of cracking under the pressure of increased media scrutiny.
Crikey Says: Of brickies, socialites and conjunctivitis
Set against an increasingly hostile political environment, this speech opened with a welcome gesture — Gillard sensibly pointed to the “politics of inclusion”.
NSW Greens: not easy being green, as high hopes fizzle
It’s not only NSW Labor with some serious soul searching to do. Like at the Victorian election last November, expectations of a Greenslide in NSW did not eventuate. So what went wrong?
Political snippets: Labor’s big tax negative
That NSW Liberal Leader Barry O’Farrell bothered to include criticism of a carbon tax in his presentation last night to a voters forum on the State election tells me that the pollsters are finding that this is a very big negative for the Labor Party.
