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Female MPs: you’re either a mum, or the owner of an empty fruit bowl

Crikey / Amber Jamieson / Thursday, 27 January 2011

Far more than men, female politicians have their political identities framed around their family and relationship situation.

MPs bowing out of politics at Election 2010: a Crikey List

Crikey / Bernard Keane / Tuesday, 16 March 2010

More of our MPs are retiring than in previous decades, and earlier too. Bernard Keane has compiled a list of those who will be bowing out at the next election.

Nuclear energy: the Coalition’s next big power struggle

Online Opinion / Friday, 18 December 2009

The Coalition’s internal squabbling is far from over, and the next big battle will be fought over the highly-divisive issue of nuclear power, says Jim Green, when Abbott is finally forced to take a position on it next year.

Former detainees tell: how it feels to have $260k debt slashed

Crikey / Sophie Black / Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Crikey asked some refugees what the passage of the detention debt abolition bill means to them.

Judith Troeth one of the last of the reasonable members of the coalition

Crikey / Greg Barns / Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Yesterday Judith Troeth spoke eloquently about the need for the Liberal Party to come to terms with the damage it did to thousands of people who sought asylum in this country, a contrasting view to most of her colleagues.

Detention debt destroyed

The Sydney Morning Herald / Tuesday, 8 September 2009

After much debate, including a Crikey analysis of which Coalition members supported the bill, the charging of immigration detainees and asylum seekers for their mandatory detention has been scrapped.

The day after Howard’s End

Crikey / Tuesday, 19 February 2008

All eyes last night were on Four Corners, but have we actually learned anything, wonders Christian Kerr.