Tony Jones won’t replace Kerry O’Brien … Don Argus … Politicians abiding by the scouting code … Costello’s legacy … Therese Rein … Penny Wong …
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The knives are coming out — time to sack Medibank chairman
Kevin Rudd is still yet to sack his first public servant but there are plenty of people voluntarily falling on swords and many more looking over their shoulders, writes Stephen Mayne.
Stephen Mayne: The Higgins Diary that wasn’t
We’ve all had some chuckles about Crikey’s little disclosures at the end of my recent political stories, such as this one on Wednesday: “Crikey: Against all our advice, Stephen Mayne is running as an independent candidate in the seat of Higgins.”
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Crikey’s cut out & keep Not-the-Cup Sweepstakes.
Mitchell: Costello disappoints
Liberal federal Cabinet ministers, backbenchers and hard-heads in the Liberal Party organisation were dismayed and annoyed by the pathetic performance of Treasurer Peter Costello in yesterday’s live debate with Labor’s shadow treasurer Wayne Swan, writes Alex Mitchell.
Kilgour: Howard and Costello don’t really like workers
The Crosby Textor obsession with union leaders in the front row of a future Rudd Cabinet is a joke. It’s desperate. It will barely pull a vote back. I hope Textor is not charging for that advice, writes Adam Kilgour.
MacCormack: What next, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Peter Costello has escalated his doomsday rhetoric very quickly since Tuesday’s inflation figures, but he needs to pace himself. We won’t even be into November before Kevin Rudd becomes one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, writes David MacCormack.
A Liberal leader from the ashes … Brendan Nelson
There’s counting of votes going on at a very senior level in the Liberal Party but it’s got nothing to do with November 24. It’s for a ballot after then: numbers work for a leadership contest. Crikey understands it’s absolutely serious, writes Christian Kerr.
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Burnside: I didn’t heckle … a cabbie’s say … tax cuts … Flint and Rudd … political advertising … the political junkie’s dilemma … Howard’s history …
Flint: Coalition must remember the “forgotten people”
The Coalition will have to persuade the undecided that they have the better team, the better policies, and they are the safest hands. And above all, it should remember their natural constituency, the “forgotten people,” writes David Flint.
Bahnisch: Rudd or complete chaos, you decide
Labor now has the happy prospect of being able to suggest that a vote for Howard would be a vote for an unstable and leaderless government if he were to be re-elected. Who would take over?
Fiscal humbuggery and other cunning plans
“One of the more spectacular bits of fiscal humbuggery we have ever seen in this country” is Laura Tingle’s AFR description of the Howard/Costello money jar approach to having a large surplus and eating it too.
Snapshot of a PM-(still)-in-waiting
Today’s Costello leadership revelation should come as no surprise. Over the past three years we have gradually seen the opinions of the prime minister-(still)-in-waiting seep through the cracks in his public loyalty to the PM. Crikey maps them.
Margin notes for John Winston Howard: The Biography
The PM does the 7:30 Report … Great moments in spin and Cossie’s logic … Civility in politics? … Déjà vu all over again?.
