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Bob Ellis
Ellis: Tony Abbott floored me
Tony Abbott is often regarded as an expert in the field of gaffe makers, but Bob Ellis experienced a different man: a charismatic and formidable politician with clever responses to tricky questions and an off the cuff ability to quote Brideshead Revisited.
Bob Ellis: Guns don’t kill people, people kill nature and nature kills people
When are we going to get our priorities and our tax payer dollars in order? The Haiti earthquake just reiterates that natural disasters are killing more people than terrorism, yet we spend billions on a war against terrorism, argues Bob Ellis.
Talking the Town: Talking the town: Tony Abbott and Bob Ellis, in conversation. Yes, really.
It’s not often you go to a book launch where the author never mentions his own book, and spends most of the night talking about someone else’s, which is what happened with Bob Ellis and Tony Abbott last night.
Bob Ellis: Malcolm Turnbull, the lost Liberal Democrat
Malcolm Turnbull — and Australia — deserved better than the malicious political game-playing from both sides of Parliament that has ultimately done him in, says Bob Ellis.
Bob Ellis: Newspoll is the Bill O’Reilly of statistics
Why do we believe Newspoll’s latest results? asks Bob Ellis. The pollster has been clearly inconsistent, isn’t forthcoming with its methodology and has no checks — yet we view it as an independent authority?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Economists on the economy?
Crikey readers weigh in on where economists know anything about the economy, John Della Bosca jokes and the joys of ABC’s Respectember.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Della Bosca and his upstanding member
Crikey readers continue to weigh in on the John Della Bosca sex scandal, in light of the article by Bob Ellis. Plus, what’s happening with the Australian film industry?
Bob Ellis: Tony Abbott and me
Bob Ellis muses on Tony Abbott — the man who might be leader — and his new autobiography, Battlelines. He writes very well, but is ultimately just “one more woolly Howardite denialist.”
Guy Rundle: Friday drive bys: Murdoch and hatchet jobs
Rundle on Romanians, Rupert Murdoch and hatchet jobs. No-one is safe.
Bob Ellis translated for Liberal voters
This week in Crikey Bob Ellis offered his helpful hints on telling “a Liberal voter from an ordinary, decent human being.” Angus Sharpe offers a translation of the Ellis text to Liberal voters.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Are ads making kids fat? Readers weigh in
Readers bicker over whether junk food ads are really making kids fat, and Gerard Henderson writes in about Bob Ellis.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Pokies, clubs and local government
Readers weigh in on pokies, local government, Bob Ellis and more.
Bob Ellis v Margot Saville: from farts to Ingmar Bergman
Author and sometimes Crikey contributor Margot Saville reviewed Bob Ellis’ And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Time of Change for the Sydney Morning Herald. Bob Ellis begged to differ
Talking the Town: Talking the Town: mutants and deviants at Bob Ellis’ book launch
Bob Ellis was his usual cantankerous, curmudgeonly, vastly-entertaining self at the launch of his new book last night, writes Margot Saville.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: PETA applauds Rudd’s vegetarian stance
Mr Rudd may have spit the dummy on a RAAF flight at the prospect of having his diet derailed by a fatty meat meal, but who wouldn’t? writes PETA’s Alistair Cornell.
The Ellis view: Kevin Rudd the Chinese lesbian
ALP wordsmith Bob Ellis appears to have outdone himself with a biting salvo at the PM’s “muscular timidity” in the latest edition of Overland magazine, writes Andrew Crook.
Catriona Rowntree vs Bob Ellis
A Steelcage Death Match
