Greg Combet isn’t usually Parliament’s resident comedian, says Annabel Crabb, but he had them rolling in the aisles yesterday. Punchlines are a-dime-a-dozen with the Coalition’s climate sceptics around.
Greg Combet
Crikey Says: Calm down, no rush on CPRS
Apparently the CPRS isn’t that urgent. Otherwise, why would debate keep getting delayed by both the Coalition and the government?
Guy Rundle: Women at war, the mother of political betrayals
The Rudd government’s policy of equality will be fulfilled when a young Australian mother is killed on the front line, and her small children can fold up a flag and put it on her coffin.
War no longer a battle of the sexes
After Greg Combet’s comments about allowing women on the front line, the defence force should prepare itself for a “seismic shift”. War will no longer be secret men’s business, writes Rebecca Wilson.
Turnbull underlings wrecking the Libs
Last night Malcolm Turnbull should have flown back to Sydney, gone home and had a few stiff drinks. It has been a hell of a week for him. And this time, it wasn’t of his own making.
After Fitzgibbon, who can take the fight to Defence?
Replacing Joel Fitzgibbon will be no easy task.
politicians behaving badly Defence Minister Fitzgibbon’s gone
The beleaguered Defence minister is gone (read the back story here). Who will replace him?
Combet fudging the carbon tax question
Listening to Combet on Radio National this morning, you could almost hear him turning the page to his Talking Points.
Greens the only honest brokers in climate change debate
Far from being irrelevant to the ETS debate, the Greens are the only ones being honest, writes Bernard Keane.
Defence is simply too big for Nick Warner
Of course Nick Warner is the wrong man for the job of Secretary of the Defence Department. That’s because the job is beyond any single individual, and certainly beyond any single Minister, writes Bernard Keane.
Wong the biggest loser in Rudd’s mini-shuffle
Given they’re only parliamentary secretaries, the first reshuffle announced late yesterday by the Prime Minister has attracted a lot of tea-leaf reading by commentators, writes Bernard Keane.
People’s Choice: 2007’s Sexiest Male & Female Politicians
Here they are, the annual People’s Choice Award for Sexiest Male and Female Politician. Hot.
