Crikey readers debate opening the asylum seeker floodgates, police frisking, fat taxes and some cruel irony from yesterday’s Cup.
Glenn Milne
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Keane: Glenn Milne is a grub
In the weekend’s Sunday Telegraph, Glenn Milne reported a relationship between two MPs. This isn’t even news to Canberra insiders, says Bernard Keane, and it shouldn’t be news for anyone: there is no public interest.
Who dudded Dutton?
Was Peter Dutton’s preselection loss the result of a vindictive Nats agenda? Or, an attack on Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership? The real political plot is in the minds of News Ltd journos, writes Bernard Keane.
Running a flagpole up Glenn Milne. Salute.
The Government’s insistence on signage for its projects is weird and offensive, but so is Glenn Milne’s comparison of Kevin Rudd to Kim Jong Il.
News Ltd v the Rudd government … V for vendetta
The Rudd Government is exploiting a News Ltd vendetta to the hilt to avoid scrutiny and reinforce the Prime Minister’s popularity.
How stupid does Glenn Milne think we – and Andrew Charlton – are?
The Oz’s Glenn Milne is alleging that Andrew Charlton — doctor, author, PM’s economic advisor and Rhodes Scholar — was so stupid that he voluntarily gave Malcolm Turnbull the nod that his political strategy to bring down the PM was on the right track!!!?! Horseshit, says Possum Comitatus.
Political snippets: Nice try Aussie journos
The media really are going to extraordinary lengths to get Australian politicians implicated in the kind of expense account rorts that are battering the reputation of politicians in the United Kingdom. So far, no smoking gun.
The Peter Costello Food Pyramid
Warning: this cartoon may contain traces of Peter Costello…
The Costello Memoir Part 2: The “challenge” that never was
Minchin suggested I challenge Howard, but I needed to Google ‘challenge’ and told him I’d respond later, writes Walter Slurry.
The only wedge is in Glen Milne’s underpants
In order to construct a wedge, you need to have the government in support of the proposal and the Opposition causing maximum embarrassment by upping the ante. Try telling Glen Milne that, writes Alex Mitchell.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
The mystery stand over person … Testing the robust tolerance … Moving toward the centre
Milne: dwarf off the drip turns grumpy
Does anyone talk to Glenn Milne any more? Doesn’t look like it, writes Bernard Keane.
Glenn Milne stuck playing in the Coalition sandpit
Glenn Milne is having a rough time of it. Whether it’s because no Minister will return his calls, or because he just doesn’t like the Rudd Government, he’s stuck playing in the Coalition sandpit, writes Bernard Keane.
Tips and rumours
I have it on good authority that Don Watson will certainly not be returning to political life to write speeches for Kevin Rudd. Nevertheless, the search for new speechwriters to upgrade the PM’s rhetoric is on in earnest. This includes the PM’s office and department. I’m told that the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet […]
Any dwarf in a storm as Swan plays hard ball with the RBA
Wayne Swan’s decision to launch an attack on RBA Governor Glenn Stevens through Glenn Milne is incredibly unsubtle, writes Stephen Mayne.
Glenn Milne’s rising star and the Murray-Darling Basin deal
The Glenn Milne-Peter Costello show ran for some years without, sadly, ever making onto Broadway. Milne, however, may now have a new partner, writes Bernard Keane.
Libs won’t touch the Howard inner circle
Crikey understands that Janette Howard effectively vetoed Liberal Party efforts for serious online campaigning last year, writes Christian Kerr.
Howard’s End: where was the bitterness?
As a clearer picture of the dying days of the Howard Government emerges, questions suggest themselves. Howard biographer Wayne Errington writes.
Flint: Bali, more socialist than scientific
The threat was made repeatedly during the election that unless Australia ratified Kyoto we would have no seat at the Bali table. This was completely untrue, writes David Flint.
