What the G20 says v what the world actually looks like.
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Crikey Says: Reality … and rhetoric
The G2.0 protests
As G20 protesters gathered on the streets of London yesterday, many also took out their little red netbooks and began to document every thrilling second of the action.
Alastair Campbell: Why Kevin Rudd made an impact
Kevin Rudd’s success on Sunday came from being rooted in a culture in which he is still able to see an interview as a place to make a series of big strategic points, writes Alastair Campbell.
“Sizzling G20 wives”, oh dear
Carla Bruni caused a frenzy last year. Now with Sarah Brown hosting and Svetlana Medvedeva attending, the first ladies of the G20 summit have all eyes in London placed squarely on them.
Mungo MacCallum: Rudd, Manning Clark, Mata Hari and Greg Sheridan
The Australian media sees a good spy story as only slightly less jeans-creaming than a good leadership story, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Keating: a chance to remake the global financial system
Until international monetary governance is democratised, or at least is more representative, no major developing country, creditor or otherwise, is going to put its head into the IMF cum US Treasury noose, writes Paul Keating.
Rudd’s Asia-Pacific Community DOA
Rudd himself has argued that Australia must pursue “middle-power diplomacy”. Hopefully at some point he’ll accept the logic of that himself and stop trying to change the world single-handedly, writes Bernard Keane.
The first 12 months of our Kevin
I bags the big room!
Rudd, Bush, Sarkozy, Howard… where did the love go?
Had enough of G20-speakerphone-dinner-that-wasn’t-a-dinner-Dubya’s-an-idiot-no-Rudd’s-an-idiot gate yet? At Crikey we’re just getting warmed up, writes Bernard Keane.
Clash of the titans: Brumby v Rudd
Sometimes the difference between our Federal and State leaders is thrown into stark contrast, writes Bernard Keane.
G20 talking loud but solving nothing
By the time the G20 meets again in April, the global financial system may be beyond repair, argues Glenn Dyer.
We need a new world health order, post-G20
We are faced with the possibility of transforming the dysfunctional, corrupt and unfair global economic system so we can tackle the global challenges of the 21st century, write Fran Baum, David Woodward and Dave McCoy.
Mungo: Get off the pot Chris Mitchell
If the situation is even half as serious as Mitchell claims, then he owes it to the Australian public to tell them the truth. Unfortunately this may get in the way of a good beat up, but that’s journalism, writes Mungo MacCallum.
G20 gaffe: Australian public say “whatever”
People, it seems, don’t want to know that their Prime Minister has an ego so large it unbalances his judgement. Or perhaps they know and don’t care, writes Bernard Keane.
The Oz is ducking G20 phone call story
Today “Cut & Paste” has an airswing at Crikey over the G20 phone call — or as 4BC’s Michael Smith tartly terms it, “Speakerphonegate”.
What does the G20 giggle say about Kevin Rudd?
Something felt strange about Matt Franklin’s now world-famous piece on the Bush-Rudd discussion about the economic summit later this month, writes Bernard Keane.
APEC protest groups: your guide to their non-violence
The Supreme Court decided yesterday to grant an injunction against the march route proposed by the Stop Bush Coalition, a route that would have taken the protest straight to police lines. So who will be there, and what is the likelihood they will throw heavy things at people in uniforms?
