Julie Bishop’s compulsory Asian language education: are we too monolingual for our own good?Julie Bishop recently announced her ambition to have Asian languages compulsorily taught in school. For one thing, it would be certain be a master stroke in soft diplomacy, writes Aidan Wilson.
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Two grand for Barnaby’s ‘mind blowing’ India epic with Gina
Crikey can reveal that while Gina Rinehart paid for Barnaby Joyce and deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop to travel to nuptials in India, Joyce used his overseas parliamentary study entitlement for the return leg from Kuala Lumpur.
Hunt joins the climate denialist cutters and pasters
Another Coalition frontbencher has been caught out relying on dodgy claims off the internet, along with plenty of others.
The Bishop’s Gambit: cutting and pasting denialist errors
A group of bloggers has again sprung Julie Bishop using material from other sources - including some howling errors.
Politics of misogyny, or misogyny of politics … you decide
Plenty of placards at the anti-carbon tax rally were misogynist. Problem is, they reflect our political culture, not differ from it.
Coorey: A shock(jock)ing lack of respect
Shock jocks aren’t journalists, but they should have the decency to treat the political leaders of this country with a little bit of respect, because the recent rudeness just lowers the — already low — standard of public debate, declares Phillip Coorey.
Crikey Says: Julia’s replay (warning: laboured footy puns at forty paces)
A prime minister pleaded: “Please, please, we cannot have a draw,” she prophetically pined before the AFL Grand Final Saturday morning. They didn’t get it. A nation waits — again.
Hartcher: The one day wonder of the Robb challenge
For about three seconds there, Andrew Robb planned to challenge Julie Bishop for the role of Liberal deputy, as revenge to Joe Hockey. Peter Hartcher reveals how it all fell apart.
Maiden: The Bishop death stare strikes again
News that Andrew Robb was to challenge Julia Bishop for the Liberal deputy position had Canberra abuzz yesterday. But just hours later the story was crushed, as Bishop continues to live up to her cockroach nickname, writes Samantha Maiden.
Hudson: When competent = compliment
Being described as “competent” isn’t exactly the highest of praises, but Julie Bishop used precisely that word yesterday to describe Tony Abbott. Considering he’s a man many believe isn’t ready to govern, it was taken as a compliment, says Tony Wright.
A tweet-laden letter to Julie Bishop
Louise Burke has desperately tried to engage Julie Bishop on Twitter, but to no avail. Why won’t she respond? Burke isn’t asking for much - just 140 measly characters.
PHOTO GALLERY: Julie & Julia
Perhaps the most amusing photo gallery to come out of Australian politics in years. Julia Gillard and Julie Bishop lead their prospective parties during Question Time, with lots of bitchy glares and finger pointing.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Julie’s doggy double
I think I’ve discovered the origins of Julie Bishop’s “death stare”…
PHOTO GALLERY: When pollies get manipulated
Look, it might be silly to laugh at Photoshopped images of Australian pollies, but Kevin Rudd as Robin Hood and Tony Abbott as Count von Count from the Muppets is pretty funny.
Colless: Time for superhero Sinodinos to come to the rescue
The Opposition is a shambles, from Julie Bishop’s gaffes to Tony Abbott’s unpopularity. Arthur Sinodinos — Howard’s former chief-of-staff — needs to come back and kick them into gear, writes Malcolm Colless.
Mungo MacCallum: Mungo: New ‘Bronwyn’ takes some heat from Rudd’s amateurs
There are times, and this is one of them, when Rudd and his troops look like a bunch of amateurs. The only thing that saves them is that their opponents look even sillier.
Julie Bishop’s right — the government has form on fudging passports
A leading refugee advocate says Julie Bishop is correct about Australian authorities’s use of fake passports: refugees without passports or official documents are regularly issued with substitute passports.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Julie Bishop: one election and a Winchelsea truck smash from PM
Crikey readers weigh in on spies, passports and Julie Bishop’s stupidity. Plus, which Crikey gets a spelling lesson on peninsula, not peninsular.
Bartlett: Are the Libs turning into the Tea Party?
The Coalition has turned into a force that disagrees with everything for the sake of it, no matter how mundane, and it’s destroying the government’s ability to form public policy, writes Andrew Bartlett.
Of course our spies are forging passports
If Australian spies aren’t faking passports, they’re not doing their job properly, says Graham Young. Julie Bishop’s only “gaffe” was to back-down after stating the bleeding obvious.
Greg Sheridan was right! About Julie Bishop that is…
Julie Bishop stuffed up Treasury, and now she’s stuffed up Foreign Affairs. Luckily Tony Abbott is on the ball in that portfolio…
Political snippets: Spycatcher Julie Bishop’s electoral gaffe
Julie Bishop probably regrets having suggested that Australian spies forge passports. Plus, the GFC in historical perspective, Rudd yells at newspaper editors and other political tidbits.
