The sinking of the HMAS Adelaide has the local Central Coast community in a spin: local media is in conflict, the State Government is pushing hard, Peter Garrett faces another difficult decision — and the US President might even show up.
NSW government
Crikey Says: The NSW papers prepare their terrorist manifestos
Today, as they grasp for relevance in their dotage, the SMH and the Tele are running campaigns to demolish constitutional democracy in NSW that are absurd and positively embarrassing.
Crikey Says: The party puppeteers pulling all the strings
A fascinating feature of last week’s political killing season — a Premier and a federal Opposition Leader gunned down over three blood-spilling days — was the role of the Tripodi, Obeid and Minchin as sneaky puppeteers.
McGurk’s secret tapes could destroy NSW govt
Explosive claims that murdered businessman Michael McGurk secretly recorded offers of bribes with five NSW MPs and a federal MP, with reports the tapes would bring down the NSW government.
Tips and rumours: Gay Christian speaker prevented from speaking at church
The Anglican Church uninvite a gay speaker, Coles definitely not the fresh food people, jumps racing horses don’t have great odds.
Saving the Snowy is a total legal fiction
The Snowy agreement imposes virtually no obligations on the NSW Government or the Snowy Hydro Company.
Bangaroo bust-up bad news for Rees
Buried in a newspaper story on the weekend was a disclosure that is bad news for the struggling NSW Government.
National approach needed for gangs not just tough talk
Criminal gangs’ activities don’t stop at state boundaries. So we need an effective national approach to interstate organised crime activities, not more draconian laws, writes Moira Raynor.
Political snippets: Governments and the capacity for revenge
Any banker who thinks that the strategy of increasing lending margins by not passing on cuts in official interest rates is risk free should stop and consider what is happening to Telstra.
podcast Canberra Calling: Our exciting new broadband future delivered via rubber chicken.
NSW: bringing down the team in Australia’s workforce participation data while Jonathan Green, Bernard Keane and a rubber chicken embrace our exciting new broadband future.
‘Max the axe’ to sort O’Farrell’s infrastructure
Macquarie Bank has spread its tentacles even closer to the heart of NSW, writes Glenn Dyer.
NSW Libs give Premier Rees a glimmer of hope
Before the ALP coffin is rolled into the furnaces there is a tiny sliver of hope for Premier Nathan Rees – the NSW division of the Liberal Party, writes Alex Mitchell.
Baseball bats ready at four NSW by-elections
Next Saturday’s four by-elections in NSW will show the electoral toxicity of the Labor Government, writes Alex Mitchell.
Sydney media finds new hate figure — Premier Rees
Nathan Rees appears to have committed the cardinal sin of not asking Fairfax and News Ltd if he could have their permission to become premier, writes Alex Mitchell.
Gilding the Tripodi, Rees comes out spinning
The new Premier has come out spinning right from the start, gilding Joe Tripodi, much to the bemusement of Reserve Bankers, writes Michael PascoeM.
NSW farmers skewered to sell coal to China
In opening up the rich agricultural land to coalmining, Macdonald has fulfilled his role as mines minister but betrayed farmers who come under his primary industries portfolio, writes Alex Mitchell.
Iguanagate II: the return of Della Bosca
In the next few days, the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions QC will announce what charges will, or won’t, be laid, writes Alex Mitchell.
TABcorp loophole lets NSW punters beg and borrow
There’s a new chapter in the grubby history of the NSW government’s gambling addiction and the sway gambling operators have over Macquarie Street and it comes from an interesting source: www.news.com.au, rather than one of the Murdoch newspapers.
John Howard and matters of high principle
“Love me or loathe me, people accept that I stand for something,” the Prime Minister claimed on The 7:30 Report last night. Really, Prime Minister? Are you sure? Writes Christian Kerr.
