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Where’s Mal Brough, and where’s Campbell Newman? … UNSW hacked … changes at TT …

In this week’s Christmas party hangover edition of Crikey Calling, Bernard is joined by editor Jason Whittaker and deputy editor Cathy Alexander to talk about the fallout from the Peter Slipper-James Ashby ruling and also predict what might happen in federal politics in 2013.

Crikey readers weigh in.

What if the standards invoked by the opposition in regards to Julia Gillard were applied to themselves? Surely they would not let Brough, who a judge has found was a willing party to an abuse of process, continue as its preselected candidate for Fisher.

There’s a broad expectation that Mal Brough will walk straight back into the ministry if he wins Fisher. And there’s widespread fear in black Australia that the portfolio will be Aboriginal affairs.

The Ashby saga is unlikely to do much damage to the opposition but it will do plenty to Mal Brough, once touted as a future leader.

Global evidence suggests that stronger futures for Aboriginal people will require more self-determination, writes professor Jon Altman of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.

Kevin Rudd has become an expert in paying lip service to symbolic indigenous issues but his government is failing with the NT intervention and its many faults, writes John Tomlinson. Time to look outside the box?

Aboriginal affairs minister Jenny Macklin was yesterday given a statement signed by 236 members of the 914-strong Yuendumu community.

Minister Macklin has responded very swiftly to reject the key recommendation of the NTER Review Board that she appointed, writes Jon Altman.

Boy, when the Nationals move in, they really move in, don’t they? They’re like party guests who sell your house from under you, writes Bernard Keane.

“Somebody needed to stand up to Howard and rein in his 2007 budget plans. Unfortunately, Nick Minchin said nothing.” A first exclusive peak at the Peter Costello memoirs.

The Liberal-National merger is likely to be ratified by the Federal Liberal Party as early as this week, according to Liberal sources, writes Bernard Keane.

So arrogant have the Queensland Nationals been in assuming the merger with the Liberals was a done deal that they went ahead and commissioned and booked “Liberal National Party” advertising for next week. With one slight problem — they didn’t tell the Liberals, writes Bernard Keane.

The Queensland Liberals are self-destructing before our eyes following last night’s remarkable State Council meeting, with pro-merger forces set to leave the party and join the Nationals’ new venture, writes Bernard Keane.

The Nationals were happy to sign up for a Liberal merger two years ago - is paranoia about Mal Brough the only thing standing in the way this time? Bernard Keane writes.

Brough’s proposal that Shane Stone come in as a compromise president for the new Liberal National Party was rejected by the Nationals because Stone was unacceptable to Liberal factional chief Santo Santoro. Remember him? writes Bernard Keane.

Crikey has been leaked a weekly progress report on the Northern Territory Intervention. Progress is slow. And costly. Sophie Black reports.

On Saturday, it will be a year since the Northern Territory intervention. It’s a pretty good time to reflect…

The more Queensland Liberals look at the draft Liberal National Party constitution, the less likely they are to vote for it, writes Bernard Keane.

To the vast majority of Indigenous Australians, and their non Indigenous supporters, Brough is considered a joke, writes Chris Graham.

The debate over the petrol prices has steadfastly refused to cnosider one of the most obvious solutions - rethinking the Oil Price Parity Agreement, writes economist Garrick Small.

The Liberals should have known that the Government would baulk at Brough, writes Bernard Keane.