How did Brendan Nelson’s office become a refuge for former ACCI highflyers, asks Christian Kerr.
Cabinet colleagues
Aboriginal Australia: the hard line according to Jenny Macklin
Did Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin use Sorry Day to announce a policy position that would have provoked uproar if it came from the Coalition? That’s what appears to have happened on The 7:30 Report last night, writes Christian Kerr.
The Howard cabinet jumped off the cliff together
It was a fascinating read on Saturday as Paul Kelly pieced together in The Weekend Australian the strange tensions within the Cabinet of John Howard in the couple of weeks before the formal start of this year’s election campaign. It is not often that the mental processes of lemmings are exposed in such detail as Kelly provided.
The gathering darkness behind Holt’s sunny smile
Harold Holt was clearly a deeply troubled man when he entered those choppy waters off Cheviot Beach on 17 November 1967, never to return. But was he troubled enough to take his own life, or did he simply not care any more? asks Norman Abjorensen.
Loathing Costello: the week’s untold story
Peter Costello wasn’t invited last week when ministers met to discuss the PM’s future last week. Which may be just as well, writes Christian Kerr.
