Not much movement in the Top Five, with Morris Iemma celebrating the Year of the Rat by being ubiquitous if not exactly popular.
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The Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20
Dr Nelson may or may not be sorry that he has finally received enough coverage this week to get him up to second in the Tuesday Top Twenty.
The Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20
Wayne Swan up to number two in these inflationary times, while the vast Brendan Nelson media machine has finally cranked into gear as he leaps into the Top Five.
Mungo: The permit system should stay
So it’s back to work, and the Rudd government’s honeymoon is already over – at least it is if the Murdoch press has anything to say about it., writes Mungo MacCallum.
Macklin’s right, the permit system needs to be reintroduced
The problem with the argument against the permit system is that its proponents can’t actually point to a single moment in the history of the Land Rights Act where the permit system has actually contributed to death, destruction, doom and gloom, writes Chris Graham.
Vale the National Indigenous Council…
This morning, news broke that Jenny Macklin yesterday gave the National Indigenous Council, that most odious of hand-picked Indigenous Howard government advisory bodies, its marching orders, writes Chris Graham.
The Tuesday Top 20
A bloke called Wayne is Number One in this week’s Crikey/Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20. Wayne. How things change. The former prime minister never let his treasurer push him from the top spot, writes Christian Kerr.
Time for ALP to act on Indigenous jobs promise
Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory have been given an undertaking by the federal ALP to commute the death sentence hanging over the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) Program. So where’s the action? asks Graham Ring.
Time to bring the funny, Kev
I’m starting to get a little nervous about Kevin Rudd and his new government. They’ve not done one goddamn thing to help out my fellow comedians and me, writes Adam Rozenbachs.
The sorry saga of reconciliation
The Rudd government’s handling of the sorry saga over an apology and payment of compensation to members of the Stolen Generation represents both a step forward and a step backward. And as any fifth grader will tell you, that adds up to not much progress at all.
The return of the Tuesday Top 20
The Crikey/Media Monitors Tuesday Top 20 has returned for the new year – and the new zeitgeist. Sorta. Only three serving Liberal pollies are in the Top 20, but John Howard remains in the top three, writes Christian Kerr.
The Tuesday Top 20
The final Tuesday Top 20 for 2007 is in – and does it feature the final chart appearance by John Howard? asks Christian Kerr.
What the intervention will mean for communities this Christmas
The first decisions by the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jenny Macklin, on the intervention in the Northern Territory give a clear indication of the direction the Rudd Labor government is likely to take in this matter, writes Claire Smith.
Political correctness and the damage done
The usual vocal representatives of the Aboriginal misery industry have been conspicuous by their absence in Crikey this week on the Aurukun case. Perhaps they’re too upset by the travails of Geoff Clark, writes Christian Kerr.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
There’s a wicked whiff of irony in all this sudden talk of reconciliation. You hear it ringing with shadow spokeswoman Jenny Macklin’s endorsement of the Prime Minister’s sudden epiphanous sympathy for black Australia.
The Ruddster to do Darwin
The Northern Territory Combined Aboriginal Organisations meets today. And the meeting will have a special bearing on the coming federal election as a delegation from the meeting will be meeting with Kevin Rudd tomorrow.
