The design of the parliamentary office of PM Kevin Rudd’s inner circle says much about the power factions of the Rudd government. Mark Davis examines who sits where.
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Mungo MacCallum: Is it time to bring the troops home?
After seven years of achieving very little, it may be timely to ask just how and when we an expect to bring the troops home from Afghanistan.
Tips and rumours: Silent redundancies at Fairfax?
Fairfax are again offering redundancies to selected journalists, says a tipster.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Rudd shakes his way to the top
After that many shakes of the sauce bottle, the PM’s still on top.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The brothers Fitzgibbon
Crikey readers have their say on Joel and Mark Fitzgibbon, The Chaser and the ALP’s origins.
Mungo MacCallum: Fitzgibbon, Faulkner and the cost of new appointments
Just because you’re paranoid it doesn’t mean that they’re not after you.
Rudd turns Faulkner to Defence
Special Minister of State John Faulkner will move to the Defence portfolio to cover the resignation of Joel Fitzgibbon.
After Fitzgibbon, who can take the fight to Defence?
Replacing Joel Fitzgibbon will be no easy task.
Crikey Says: Britain v Australia: a tale of two MP scandals
Crikey is normally shy of the crass nationalism so readily found in the mainstream media. But for once, it’s worth pondering the effectiveness of the Australian political system…
The brothers Fitzgibbon: the ALP writ small
Mark Fitzgibbon, whose inability or unwillingness to stay out of his younger brother’s office led to Joel Fitzgibbon’s downfall is, as they say, no stranger to controversy.
Banham: Monster portfolio too big for Fitzgibbon
The Defence portfolio was a reward from Rudd for helping him obtain party leadership — but it was too much for a cautious minister like Fitzgibbon to handle, argues Cynthia Banham.
Dodd: Undone by his own failings
Joel Fitzgibbon was brought down by his own sloppy ministerial standards, says Mark Dodd.
Pearlman: One banana skin too many
Fitzgibbon’s ministerial career ended after a sorry history of oversights rather than one single sackable offence, says Jonathan Pearlman.
politicians behaving badly Defence Minister Fitzgibbon’s gone
The beleaguered Defence minister is gone (read the back story here). Who will replace him?
Joel Fitzgibbon, time to step aside?
Joel Fitzgibbon has now breached the Government’s Standards of Ministerial Ethics twice and, if those standards have any meaning, should step aside.
Political snippets: The Age finds communists in China
The Age investigates and finds communism in China, Australians are not drinking any less and headline of the day!
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: PETA applauds Rudd’s vegetarian stance
Mr Rudd may have spit the dummy on a RAAF flight at the prospect of having his diet derailed by a fatty meat meal, but who wouldn’t? writes PETA’s Alistair Cornell.
Rudd’s OS meet-and-greet trumps the Fitzgibbon affair
What should have been a tricky week turns out to be another bottler for the PM, writes Patrick Baume.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Fitzgibbon, Israel and La Diva Vanstone
Bernie Ecclestone — just a smaller version of Napoleon, according to one Crikey reader.
Fitzgibbon and the shadow of the Yellow Peril
Behind the Fitzgibbon debate — and not very far behind it — lurks the spectre of the Yellow Peril, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Tips and rumours: Joel Fitzgibbon, Fairfax and unfinished reports
Joel Fitzgibbon may not have been a Government Minister when he received financial favours from Ms Liu, but he was a Federal MP. As an opposition frontbencher Fitzgibbon MP enjoyed the convention of opposition (shadow) frontbenchers being briefed on the activities of DFAT, on Defence, and had access to trade sensitive Government briefings on trade […]
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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Fitzgibbon affair and Cousinsmania
Crikey readers debate the seriousness of Joel Fitzgibbon’s China excursions.
Crossing the Floor with Bernard Keane: Deja vu: another politician kills Kevin’s mojo
With Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon interrupting Kevin Rudd’s time overseas with scandal back home, Bernard Keane reflects on the last time this happened. Clue: it involved an iguana…
Joel Fitzgibbon vs the mysterious men and women of the Australian Defence Force
Deep in the secret bowels of the Defence Department…
