Bob Debus


Tips and rumours: PM staffers can’t switch off

More tales of PM staffers struggling to part with technology while flying the friendly skies, and insider news from the LNP AGMs.

Debus vs Searle: NSW ALP rival sub-ghetto hatred

Bob Debus has been given the almost feudal privilege of choosing his own successor.

Tips and rumours: The new Defence Minister’s first visit to Russell Hill

Scene One, Act One from the new Defence Minister’s first visit to Russell Hill, and The West calls for voluntary redundancies.

The Media Monitors' Top 20: Ashmore explosion sees Debus get the press

Bob Debus, Chris Evans and Sharman Stone all made rare appearances in our list of top press coverage this week.

Debus’s straight bat is the way to play this

Bob Debus did the right thing by refusing to talking about the Ashmoer explosion, but his poor media manner didn’t do him any favours.

Tips and rumours: Courier Mail evacuated

Courier Mail employees evacuated … Rudd Government’s budget a shambles …

Ashmore explosion: a commentary time line

A timeline of events in the Ashmore explosion.

The inflated cost of illegally copied DVDs

Whoever did the maths for Bob Debus on the cost of DVD piracy really needs to do it again, argues Stilgherrian.

Time to bring the Crime Commission down a peg

Does the ACC have a practice of keeping dossiers on individuals its officers happen to come across in their travels, asks Greg Barns.

Bad timing for NSW Community Services shake-up

With NSW Premier Morris Iemma ensnared in a crop of crippling scandals, the chronically underfunded, understaffed and dysfunctional NSW Department of Community Services is undergoing a changing of the guard, writes Alex Mitchell.