The mining tax is pay for perfect but if it taxed more miners — not just those who mine coal and iron — it would be better, says Dr Richard Denniss of The Australia Institute.
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Australia Network joins the list of tender debacles
The Howard Government managed to let the Australia Network process go unmolested. But Labor ministers couldn’t help themselves.
Crikey Says: The little carbon tax that could
Now that wasn’t that hard, was it?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Doug Cameron for PM?
Crikey readers have their say.
Labor will eventually return to the Rudd brand
Brands are critical to Prime Ministers and Julia Gillard’s brand is very likely terminally damaged. There’s only one viable brand in Labor ranks.
Greens take the agenda because no one else wants it
Offshore processing is a gigantic mistake, and until someone other than the Greens says that, Labor will continue to suffer.
Leak for a healthier democracy
It almost always takes a difference of opinion within a cabinet to cause a leak of details of what happened in a cabinet meeting.
Media briefs: The Kiss … ABC redundancy bill doubles … Facebook timeline …
Female authors fight back … ABC redundancy bill doubles … Reporters Without Borders to open Tunisia bureau … The Department of Corrections and more …
Kisses all round as clean energy bills pass the House
When the last vote finally came to adopt the 18 clean energy bills as complete package, former Slater & Gordon lawyer Adam Bandt broke into a broad grin, his election night pronouncements 14 months ago having born fruit.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Rudd the apple of the media’s eye
Rudd got up to three-quarters of Gillard’s coverage in a week that was meant to be all about the carbon price.
Political snippets: Uncertainty the only certainty
So Australia has almost got to the point of establishing a price on carbon emissions with the House of Representatives passing legislation this morning and passage through the Senate being little more than a formality.
Crikey Says: Never mind the kiss, how ’bout that carbon tax?
Yes, in the context of their relationship that embrace is quite momentous, considering the two can’t usually manage to look each other in the eye. But not quite as momentous as say, the passage of the actual Clean Energy legislation.
Question time: offline and out of line, but they’ve still got it
Ah, House of Representatives question time, that 2pm trip back to Year 10 assembly in which the nation’s best political minds joust unceasingly for petulant advantage — and that’s just the limelight addicts in the front row of the press gallery.
Political snippets: Optimistic despite all the evidence
On the day when the leaders of Germany and France declared yet again that some time soon they will have a solution to Europe’s financial problems, the journal nature neuroscience brings us this study of the way the mind works.
Political snippets: Gillard’s broken promise
A classic example of the blame game. The buck passing on public hospital funding is well and truly back. The Tasmanian government this week announced it would cut more than $60 million from its elective surgery budget over the next three years. That means, according to federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon, that the state risks […]
Rundle: it’s all in the tone, Mao Turnbull, and apparently the genes
Malcolm Turnbull today refused to deny rumours that former Liberal prime minister Harold Holt was a Chinese agent, in a speech that offered fulsome praise for China’s one-party development model.
Carbon taxes and the ghosts of politicians past
As the latest carbon price package makes its way through parliament, Fergus Green takes a trip down memory lane.
Why does the Coalition insist on raising the Rudd spectre?
With Labor slumping so badly in the polls, why does the Coalition insist on raising the possibility of a Rudd leadership change? Could it be that they want revenge because he beat them in 2007? asks Andrew Elder.
Political snippets: Don’t underestimate the man in the hat
Underneath the hat there’s a shrewd player of the political game and I think he’ll prove it when his Katter’s Australian Party offers itself to voters for the first time.
In Australia, we’re all happy little vegemites
Kevin Rudd, it seems, is not unique. Just as the Foreign Minister last week proclaimed himself to be a happy little vegemite, so too do 78% of Australians aged 18 years and over claim to be satisfied with their lives, reports Richard Farmer.
Scullion’s Rudd exposé means no more secrets in the members’ bar
There’s no way we outsiders can know whether “she said” or “he said” is the more accurate version but at best it is rather flimsy evidence.
Sideshow Alley: Sideshow Alley: casual racism mixed with a leadership battle
From slinging racist insults in parliament to the never-ending “battle” for ALP leadership, it’s a bumper week for Sideshow Alley, our weekly column where Crikey readers nominate the most shameless political stunts and dodgy media coverage helping to dumb down and trivialise national debate. There seems a brooding disaffection for both major parties this week among Crikey readers: Aaron Murphy: […]
Media briefs: Rudds’ airport woes … Hun’s loaded poll …
In today’s Media Briefs: airport troubles for Rudds … More updates on the issue they won’t update … Online Poll of the Day … Julian Assange publishers to release autobiography without his consent and more …
