Minchin suggested I challenge Howard, but I needed to Google ‘challenge’ and told him I’d respond later, writes Walter Slurry.
Glenn Milne
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.
