Changing the donation rules … The defeat she needed … Thanks to Dean … The Daily Reality Check … The Pick of This Morning’s Political Coverage …
Mr turnbull
Turnbull v Minchin: a question of expletives
Claims in the Weekend Australian that Liberal Senate leader Nick Minchin “swore at Malcolm Turnbull during an ugly public clash over leadership tensions” are “a lie and defamatory,” according to a memo circulated to Liberal Senators and MPs by Minchin, writes Christian Kerr.
Generational change Coalition-style
So yesterday it was not a 50 year-old Peter Costello who became Leader of the Opposition but the 49 year-old Dr Brendan Nelson, with the 51 year-old Julie Bishop as his offsider. Not much sign of generational change there, writes Richard Farmer.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Morgan: ACNielsen’s errors are important … Turnbull and the leadership … Howard’s cheer leaders … ruckus in the tally room …. putting the family first … the 39 who didn’t want Kevin …
Barns: Turnbull 1, Cousins 0
Geoff Cousins, the ad man and former Howard government adviser promised that he would make life hell for Malcolm Turnbull in Wentworth, after Turnbull as Environment Minister gave the green light to a proposed pulp mill in the Tamar Valley in Northern Tasmania, writes Greg Barns.
Gunns backflip a lesson in managing Malcolm
The federal environment minister’s “tough” new conditions haven’t scuttled Gunns’ pulp mill. Indeed, according to Gunns, they make little difference at all, despite what Gunns’ CEO has been saying all year. Thomas Hunter investigates.
A tall tree tumbles in Wentworth
Poor old Malcolm Turnbull. He fought like hell to win a seat in parliament. Now it seems as if he’ll end up a oncer. That’s not much of a return on his investment, writes Christian Kerr.
Turnbull is trying to have it both ways over pulp mill
In claiming to have ensured that Gunns’ pulp mill is world’s best practice, Federal Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is trying to have it both ways, writes Tasmanian forestry campaigner Geoff Law.
Did Gunns get what it wanted, or deserved?
Now that the Federal Environment Minister has given the pulp mill conditional approval, Gunns must decide if it is going to proceed with the project knowing it will cost them time and money to comply with another 24 guidelines. Is it a deal-breaker, as Gunns has promised?
Testing the nerve of Gunns
The Tasmanian timber company Gunns bluffed its State Government into abandoning an independent public enquiry into the environmental impacts of its planned pulp mill on the grounds that the cost of waiting for the completion of the process was too great. So were they bluffing? Richard Farmer writes.
The Feds to Call Gunns’ Bluff?
Gunns, the Tasmanian timber kings, dragooned a State Premier into speeding up an approval process for its planned Tamar Valley pulp mill but may well find a Federal Prime Minister determined to slow it down.
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?