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The new Liberal Senate deputy leader is…
Eric Abetz has the Liberal Senate leadership sewn up, but it’s a three way race for the deputy position. Jim Richardson has the inside goss that George Brandis will beat out Mathias Cormann and Ian McDonald.
Inside the Liberal Senators infighting
Eric Abetz is expected to be named as Nick Minchin’s replacement as Senate leader, but fighting has broken out over the deputy position. Will the conservative Mathias Cormann beat the moderate George Brandis? asks Latika Bourke.
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Abetz: Turnbull fed me Grech leaks
Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has told The Oz that Malcolm Turnbull’s office briefed him in advance on every major Rudd Government leak from Godwin Grech.
Tasmanian election: Utopia or a dog’s breakfast?
The real story of the Tasmanian election is that voters were unprepared to elect a Liberal government, writes Bruce Montgomery.
The Coalition doesn’t care about working women
Abbott’s paid parental leave plan may be aimed at winning over women voters, but really it just entrenches existing inequalities for working women. Plus, the Libs don’t care about equal pay, writes Mark Bahnisch.
The Wilderness Society goes wild: greenies are baying for blood
The disgruntled infighting between management and staff within the Wilderness Society is grabbing lots of media and political attention. Not exactly what the environmental movement needs, writes Heidi Douglas.
Political snippets: Push comes to shove for Liberal ladies
A few items from over the holidays that are worth catching up on if you missed them, from why climate naysayers are failing to if SBS will be getting even more uppity about its Soccer™?
Burke’s backflip on timber an ETS fail
Agriculture Minister Tony Burke’s backtracking over the importation of illegal timber shows just how hard the ETS will be to police.
Godwin Grech: an incomparable disaster for the public service
Public servant Godwin Grech’s actions in the Utegate scandal went so far beyond the red line of acceptable behaviour as to put him in a world of his own.
Grech and Abetz: stacking up the statements
How do Godwin Grech’s planned questions — and answers — on the OzCar affair compare to the actual words that Eric Abetz used?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Grech is just the sideshow
Forget about Grech, say Crikey readers: focus on Abetz. Plus Marrickville, going the hack on Chinese websites, AFL tanking and more.
Political snippets: Shifting the blame — it wasn’t my idea.
We can be sure that things are getting tense within a political party when pollies start saying “don’t blame me — it was all his idea.” What a political week it’s been.
Mungo MacCallum: Utegate threatens Prime Minister’s integrity
The Prime Minister’s integrity would seem to hinge on whether the alleged email from Rudd’s office to Treasury which Senator Eric Abetz quoted last week actually exists, and if so whether it is genuine.
Left and lefter: Keane v Sparrow on political racism
There’s a lazy snobbery reflected in the assertion that our major political parties are casually racist, writes Bernard Keane.
Ken Henry’s estimates grilling: senatorial wheel spinning
The Coalition came up empty handed in its “grilling” of Treasury Secretary Ken Henry this morning, writes Bernard Keane.
