Should party leadership or local members decide safe seats?Safe seats are an opportunity to elect someone bright and controversial. However, state leaders being able to override preselection committee candidates are affecting the candidates selected, writes Anna Winter.
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Tips and rumours: Who is the new Queensland Union boss? Hint: he likes Akubras
Who will replace Jan McLucas in the Senate? Hint: someone with a penchant for Akubras. Also, Rudd money niceness backfires and Quest journalists’ pay rates.
Tips and rumours: ABC Radio stays mono
One tipster questions if ABC Radio will actually go digital, and what’s going on between Julie Bishop and Dennis Jensen?
Tips and rumours: Why do Westpac continue to make staff cuts?
Tispters tell of musical chairs in Westpac’s marketing and comms team, and Liberal MP Dennis Jensen’s new comedy act.
Tips and rumours: Fun and Games in Fort Fumble
Chaos at the Defence Department … 360% price increase at Visy … recession hits Logies?
Why Brendan should give the west the single digit
Brendan Nelson might be wondering at the moment whether he wouldn’t be better off if WA went its own way, writes Bernard Keane.
Senior Liberals now reconciled and relaxed
One suspects that in years to come, Brendan Nelson’s speech in reply to the Prime Minister’s apology to the Stolen Generations will be known chiefly for how it was jeered and rejected. Such an outcome is unfair on him and unfair on the Coalition, writes David MacCormack.
Possum Comitatus: What a Coalition apology would look like
The new Opposition, underBrendan Nelson, have demonstrated that over the last few months, they are not a group to take simplicity lightly. So what would such an ordinarily simple apology look like if the Coalition had to write it? Possum Comitatus writes.
