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Lindsay Tanner
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Lindsay Tanner on his rebellious rock ‘n’ roll years
Former Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner remembers the favourite music of his youth, calling the 60s and 70s “a period of intense cultural creativity broadly equivalent to the Renaissance.”
Sideshow Alley: Rann’s presser, Nile on Wong’s baby & a non story
With the inimitable Lindsay Tanner about to rule on the merits of Crikey’s Slideshow Alley initiative, we thought it was time to bring out the big guns and shine a light on three instances of pollie and media egregiousness over the week that was.
Once again, taxpayers pick up the tab to advertise to themselves
Here we go again. The Gillard government now has to defend not only its carbon pricing plan, but also its apparent hypocrisy in spending some $25 million of taxpayers’ money to promote it.
Sideshow Alley: A pair of black court shoes
Each week we’ll nominate the latest offerings to the service of dumbing down politics by journalists and/or politicians and at the end of each month we’ll be asking Lindsay Tanner to write through his pick of the best/worst example.
Coup anniversary: where are they now?
Paul Barry and Matthew Knott look back at the main players in the Night of the Long Knives: where are they now?
Kohler: come back Lindsay, all is forgiven
Lindsay Tanner, come back! All is forgiven. The former finance minister would have been embarrassed by this budget.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Lamenting the dumbing down of politics
Crikey readers have their say.
Tanner fights the devil of fragmentation, and maybe the ghosts of the Hawke-Keating years
Lindsay Tanner’s concerns about the dumbing down of democracy reflect fundamental changes in our media driven by the internet.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Why Australia is dumbing down
Crikey readers have their say.
Tanner was right, and the Sideshow continues
The release of former Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner’s book Sideshow, which chastises the media for dumbing down politics, was greeted with a wave of stories from journalists who went on to prove he has a point, writes Greg Jericho.
podcast Canberra Calling: Dumbing down our politics: Lindsay Tanner discusses Sideshow with Bernard Keane
Crikey’s Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane caught up with former Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner to chat about his newly released book Sideshow: Dumbing Down Democracy.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Sideshow sideshow
Crikey readers have their say.
Breaking the embargo proves Tanner’s point about media sideshow
There has to be a balance between our commercial interest in selling a book and the media’s commercial need to report on its contents, writes Scribe publicity manager Emma Morris.
Coorey: Rudd held fake meetings for Tanner
Kevin Rudd and senior Labor ministers were so deeply suspicious of Lindsay Tanner as the source of budget leaks that they went to the trouble of holding fake meetings just for him, writes Phillip Coorey.
Keane’s Talking Points: cue the ‘late swing’ headlines
In last night’s “community forum”, half the questions were “swinging voters” demanding to know what politicians are going to do for them personally or for the industries they work in.
Lindsay Tanner: Why the press pack are doing a shoddy job
Retiring MP Lindsay Tanner comes out in anger at claims he was the Laurie Oakes leaker, saying the media should focus on policy issues and matters of importance, not gossip.
Tanner: Labor’s reform record speaks for itself
Everyone is in favour of reform except when it’s happening to them. The Rudd-Gillard government can be proud of their reform agenda regardless of what the skeptics are saying, says federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner .
Mungo MacCallum: Mungo: Timor solution a stuffed-up version of whatever it takes
Timor Leste is a horribly cynical choice, and still would be even if the negotiations had been sensibly handled and the government and populace had shown themselves willing.
must read Maloney: I was there for the spill (and the mopping up)
Author Shane Maloney was sniffing around the corridors of parliament house last week. He wasn’t expecting to stumble into a PM leadership spill while eating dinner with Lindsay Tanner.
Brave in the face of defeat
There were two emotional political departures yesterday. Lindsay Tanner’s resignation suddenly leaves the Labor frontbench looking altogether lighter, while Kevin Rudd’s faced up to the wrenching experience of defeat.
Battle for Melbourne: Greens buoyed by retirement of Lindsay Tanner
The Greens’ candidate for the federal seat of Melbourne, Adam Bandt, has claimed the retirement of popular local member Lindsay Tanner has made the battle for control of the electorate more interesting.”
Mayne: will Gillard’s policy stocktake include union power?
Like with the appointment of a new CEO at a public company, one of the games going forward with Julia Gillard is to assess and track how much of the policy and personnel associated with Kevin Rudd she changes.
Lindsay Tanner resigns
A remarkable 24 hours in federal politics has continued with Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner announcing he will not contest the next election, writes Bernard Keane.
