Howard didn’t like Costello? They lied about kids overboard? Noel Pearson helping the conservatives? They neglected to check whether the attack on Iraq was legal? Paul Kelly’s new book isn’t exactly shocking.
Michelle Grattan 
The Peter Costello Food Pyramid
Warning: this cartoon may contain traces of Peter Costello…
Federal Budget review with Kevin Rudd’s cat…
Budget Lockup - No Entry!
Anti-union campaign did what it was supposed to
Before it gets too firmly entrenched as conventional wisdom, it’s worth querying the idea that the election campaign, and particularly the anti-union theme, was a miserable failure for the Coalition, writes Charles Richardson.
Reality check: And the Oz soldiers stoically on
The gap between the views of the top brass at The Australian and its readers continues to be marked with the paper still searching desperately for the best possible light to shine on the Coalition campaign while Labor is the clear choice of the consumers of those very same stories.
One female reporter does not a balanced panel make
Women who own property have been able to vote in South Australia since 1861 and all women since 1894. All Australian women have been able to vote in federal elections since 1902. Canberra, however, is blokesville – as last night’s debate showed, writes Christian Kerr.
Day One, Election ‘07: What the papers say
The view from the nation’s papers this morning.
Flint: Has Labor peaked too early?
After the polls and the destabilisation of the last week, the Coalition kept its nerve. Now the battle lines are changing – the “presidential” campaign is finished. A second front has opened and the portrayal will be of the team for the 21st century, writes David Flint.
But “the party” doesn’t decide: individuals do
One thing at least emerges from the Liberal Party’s very public trauma of the last few days - that a federal leadership change is now pretty clearly in the party’s short-term interest.
APEC generates words, words and more words
Papers are full of APEC stories this morning as you would expect but there’s nothing really newsworthy in any of them outside the arrest of the ABC comedians.
Scores affair: a study in what makes a yarn a story
Another day on which to join the dots to get the picture on how Canberra works, and once again to ask the question: can the Gallery actually get a story without having to rely on noxious drip feeds?
Scores: good clean fun?
A visit to Scores — innocent laddish fun? Maybe – but there’s usually another side to these sorts of joints, and the New York Daily News had plenty to say about Scores just over two years ago, writes Christian Kerr.
Costello: did he or didn’t he?
Incompetent parliamentary tactics from the ALP and Club Canberra’s code of omerta are obscuring a fundamental question: did the Treasurer actually say of the Prime Minister “He can’t win; I can. We can, but he can’t”?
Snapshot of a PM-(still)-in-waiting
Today’s Costello leadership revelation should come as no surprise. Over the past three years we have gradually seen the opinions of the prime minister-(still)-in-waiting seep through the cracks in his public loyalty to the PM. Crikey maps them.
Costello speaks: an ethics lesson from a liar
A low key Peter Costello fronted a doorstop outside the Ministerial Entrance at 8:40 this morning with a very important message: you can’t trust journalists.
Playing the interest rate blame game
Howard government says: states are to blame if there’s an interest rate rise. Economists and commentators say: um, no actually.
Cobber cans Kev’s compromises
Kevin Rudd seems to be practising a crude form of utilitarianism. He believes winning the greatest number of seats will guarantee the greatest happiness for the ALP – and is determined not to let anything get in his way.
NT mining royalties land in Mal Brough’s Queensland electorate
Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough took $100,000 from Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory and gave it to the organisers of a cultural festival in his own Queensland electorate of Longman, writes Chris Graham.
Political blogging and other acts of immodest self-delusion
I’m not sure anyone runs a political blog these days presuming that others will not only read it but ‘fire up’ accordingly.
Crikey Bias-o-meter III: The federal press gallery
Here’s a terrible truth about the Press Gallery. The vast majority of its members are level headed, concientous types – good men and women doing a good job.
As white Australia saw it
How commentators, pundits and talking heads saw Howard’s Aboriginal emergency.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Crikey / Monday, 29 October 2007
It sounds hopelessly naive, but whatever happened to simple, unadorned honesty? When did that become a political negative?