Daily Media Wrap: The idea of Julia Gillard sweeping in and taking over the leadership of the ALP has become the favourite media story of the last few weeks. But what’s the chances of it happening?
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Rudd fights the mining bigwigs: who’ll win?
Daily Media Wrap: The mining tax has become a sore spot for Kevin Rudd. Should he stop the whinging and start negotiating, or stand strong against the miners?
Crikey wrap: Korea on the brink after ship sinking
The Korean peninsular is on war footing after an attack on a South Korean warship blamed on its rogue northern neighbour. Crikey intern Matt de Neef wraps the global condemnation.
Google vs. Stephen Conroy
Stephen Conroy is taking on internet giants Google and Facebook over their recent privacy breaches. But is he just capitalising on the public sentiment against the two companies to take the heat off his widely-panned internet filter plans?
How embarrassment, Julie
Daily Media Wrap: Julie Bishop let it slip yesterday that local intelligence agencies are involved in passport forgery, and now Kevin Rudd is accusing her of breaching national security. Did Julie really stuff it?
Australia vs. Israel: round one
Daily Media Wrap: The Government has booted an Israeli diplomat out of Australia over the use of fake Australian passports. A bold act of diplomatic bravery, or just bowing down to the Arab world? This one’s just heating up.
Mining into a taxing issue
Daily Media Wrap: The Government goes back to maths class, WA is getting angry, and Big Mining has launched an attack advertising blitz, as the mining tax debate continues to rage.
Budget reply: did Hockey score an own goal?
Daily media wrap: Joe Hockey gave the Opposition’s Budget Reply speech yesterday, promising to save $47 billion. But he forgot to say how — and it didn’t go unnoticed.
Dousing petrol on Abbott’s pants
Daily media wrap: Is “phoney Tony” really Parliament’s resident Pinocchio? Or the only one actually telling the truth?
What’s wrong with Kevin?
Daily media wrap: Kevin Rudd and the ALP’s approval ratings took another big polling hit yesterday. The nation’s pundits weigh-in on who and what is to blame, and whether Julia Gillard could really prove the Party’s saviour.
Thailand wrap: 33 dead, a nation on the brink of outright war
As violence in Bangkok continues into its fifth day, 33 have died and another 239 have been wounded. Crikey intern Matt de Neef wraps the global coverage.
Post-Budget media wrap: what the pundits are saying
A round-up of the first impressions of Budget 2010 from the nation’s political and economic commentators.
Searching for some Red Spot Specials in Swan’s Budget
Daily media wrap: Wayne Swan may be serving up a “no frills” Budget for 2010 today, but that won’t stop the pundits picking apart his packet of You’ll Love Coles Creole Creams in the vain hope of finding a genuine Oreo they can sink their teeth into.
Building an Education
Confusion
Daily media wrap: The Audit Office report into the Rudd Government’s Building the Education Revolution was released yesterday, finding the scheme largely successful… or wait, it was an absolute mess. The media can’t seem to decide.
The Henry Review, reviewed
Daily media wrap: The Henry Tax Review, and the government’s long-awaited response to it, are in. Does it live up to the hype or did Rudd and Swan wimp out at the finish line?
UK election debate II: Return of the Clegg-i
The second UK leaders debate has just wrapped up, and all eyes were on overnight success Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg. Could he pull off an encore of his debut performance? Judge for yourself, then check out what the early polls and pundits have to say.
The media flogs Williams’ bloody corpse
Drug trafficker and hitman Carl Williams met his bloody demise in prison yesterday. It’s the story that has it all: murder, celebrity crims, betrayal, police corruption… but just how far will the nation’s papers go in celebrating the life and death of a murderer?
KFC cooks up a deep-fried marketing win
KFC has released perhaps one of the most terrifying food-like products of all time: a double-cheese and bacon burger with fried chicken in place of a bun. And every food critic in America just had to try one.
The Powerfox versus the pedagogues
Daily Media Wrap: Julia Gillard is under heavy spit-ball fire from all sides of the classroom today, facing shonky builders, angry teachers, stubborn unionists and smarmy Australian columnists.
The population debate goes boom
Daily media wrap: The already fiery population debate is set to turn into a raging inferno this week, with Labor appointing a new Population Minister and Tony Abbott asking the pertinent Easter question: what would Jesus do?
The growing debate on Australia’s growth
Daily media wrap: As Crikey’s focus on population growth continues, we take look at what the commentariat has been saying this week about Australia becoming a wider, browner land.
Tony Abbott: Ironman or running joke?
Daily media wrap: Opposition leader Tony Abbott kept himself racing through the headlines all weekend, as the media breathlessly tracked his progress as a pink-lycra-clad competitor in the grueling Ironman Australia Triathlon.
The media tells Minchin to get Nick’d
Daily media wrap: Coalition frontbencher Nick Minchin announced his resignation from Federal politics yesterday. With the dirt in his political grave still fresh, the nation’s pundits have gathered round his tombstone this morning to carve in their own epitaph.
ObamaCare: the buy and sell of what the world thinks
Crikey intern Tom Cowie looks at what the world is saying about the new US health-care reform.
A KO win for Kevin?
Daily media wrap: The pundits have declared yesterday’s health slugfest a unanimous victory to Rampaging Rudd. But was it a knock-out, or just another pointless punch-up? And is it time to ground ‘n pound the worm?
