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Former Labor state minister Mary Delahunty has spent the past feverish week following Julia Gillard through the maze of Canberrra’s Parliament House. She explains how yesterday’s leadership madness unfolded.

After being told by an MP that the Parliament House computers wouldn’t let them view his blog, Syd Walker started asking questions about which sites are blocked for parliamentarians.

Local politics is not so much on hold as locked down for the visit of Barack Obama. Cue media gushing.

Crikey readers have their say.

Getting close to a subject in political science often makes things darker and harder to see and journalists in the press gallery are no exception, writes Noel Turnbull.

Last week’s Operation Titstorm attacks by online activist group “Anonymous” brought down the Parliament House website for three days. One cyber hacker tells Crikey just how easy it was to do.

Joshua Smith explains how much youth “consultation” is really occurring in Parliament, thanks to his experiences at last week’s body image launch. Were students being used as a nice crowd backdrop for the media, rather than listening to any of their ideas?

Sure Canberra’s boring if you’re under 30, and it has no beaches and the coffee’s poor, but it has the mountains and it’s beautiful and the epitome of the great place to bring up kids.

The design of the parliamentary office of PM Kevin Rudd’s inner circle says much about the power factions of the Rudd government. Mark Davis examines who sits where.

The conduct of Federal Parliament recently has descended from chaos into outright farce, says Christian Kerr. Both sides know they’re behaving badly, but will either fall back into line?

Our Parliamentary standards are still stuck in a Victorian era of old white male legislators, writes Bernard Keane.

Do we want mothers of young children (and hopefully fathers with child care responsibilities) to be MPs or not? asks Senator Sue Boyce.

I don’t think that the primary care-givers of children should be parliamentarians, writes Helen Razer.

There’s nothing quite like watching senators discuss Serious Government Business while licking the ice-cream drips off a white chocolate Magnum. Crikey’s intrepid writer writes from the House.

Straight up from Sydney on the red-eye you would want something a bit more eye-catching to arrive at, for a nation’s capital .

Question, why do we have to go all the way to Canberra to be locked up in a room with the budget when most of it is already leaked by the time we get there?? Hey Wayne? Hey?

Bernard Keane has a look around the Press Gallery on the eve of the Budget. WARNING: may induce motion sickness

In a special post-election series, Crikey asked leading Australian thinkers to sketch a blueprint for a future Australia. Today, Miriam Lyons, Director of the Centre for Policy Development, takes a look at remaking Australian culture, for want of a smaller topic.

Was Channel 10 the first to break the election media blackout with a Family First advertisement at 12:03am Thursday morning? Hi Crikey, it’s 12:05am and I just saw two Liberal party advertisements (from 12:04am - checked using telephone time service) on Channel 10. One about unions, the other I hadn’t seen before about Labor’s effect […]

“Kirribilli House was first set aside for use as an official residence of prime ministers in which decade?”

You can read what you like into this email distributed to the NSW Liberal Party faithful yesterday: