Bob Brown is an “environmental Jesuit!” Watch out, Paul Keating is on the loose again! And he’s taking pot shots at all those around him, writes Tom Cowie.
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Productivity needs a shot in the arm — why not a GST boost?
Iin a political climate where people are craving leadership, and Australia’s productivity needs a desperate shot in the arm, advocating a tax swap should be opportune, writes Adam Creighton, a research fellow at The Centre For Independent Studies.
Keating’s still got the gift of the (expletive laden) gab
Paul Keating remains as gracious as ever when he gets to talk to journalists. If, by gracious, you mean saying things like “just f-ck off.”
Wayne Swan: world’s greatest treasurer?
Could Australia have another ‘World’s Greatest Treasurer’ on its hands with Wayne Swan? Don’t tell Paul Keating, but it seems the answer is ‘Yes’. Or so says Laurie Oakes, writes Paul Barry.
Julia undeserving of At Home with … and so are we
Once I watched At Home with Julia, my discomfort flourished, bloomed and became generally exponential, writes author and editor Sophie Cunningham.
Guy Rundle: Manufacturing … there’s nothing left to cut
As much as people didn’t want to lose jobs, most could see that the manufacturing jig was up.
It was 20 years ago today — remembering the Soviet coup
The fall of the Berlin Wall is probably the thing people remember most, but the Soviet empire, truncated and divided, limped on for another two years. It was the August coup, 20 years ago today, that really finished it off.
Once again, taxpayers pick up the tab to advertise to themselves
Here we go again. The Gillard government now has to defend not only its carbon pricing plan, but also its apparent hypocrisy in spending some $25 million of taxpayers’ money to promote it.
The difference between need for News inquiries in UK v Oz
There are inconsistencies in the many and varied calls for inquiries into Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation.
‘Unfinished business’ — Keating calls for reversal of native land rights laws
Paul Keating delivered the annual Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration at Adelaide University last night, persuasively arguing for the reversal of laws requiring Aboriginal title claimants to establish association with their land. Here is the transcript.
Keating unloads on Fairfax, the IMF and Costello
Paul Keating is deeply unhappy with claims he wants the IMF presidency and has unloaded on a variety of targets.
Paul Keating for the IMF? A beat-up with Buckley’s chance
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has rubbished a front page story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald that claims he is interested in succeeding Dominique Strauss-Kahn as head of the International Monetary Fund.
Deep in the bowels of the budget lock up
The budget is Wayne Swan’s chance to shine. It’s a pity he’s a poor salesman.
Gillard mixes language of the Right with rhetoric from the Left
Julia Gillard gave a speech on jobs at the Sydney Institute, which almost everyone only heard what they wanted to hear. And what they seemed to want to hear was that Julia Gillard was beating up on unemployed, writes Greg Jericho.
Gillard’s extraordinary ordinary
Australians
There was a great deal we’d heard before in last week’s Whitlam Institute much-debated speech by the Prime Minister. In fact, we’ve been in this grimly Spartan territory on several previous occasions.
Robbo takes the top job as NSW Labor’s history wars rage on
John Robertson is a rebel with a cause, a diabolically difficult one — to transform NSW Labor from a national laughing stock to a viable political entity. His time starts now.
Political snippets: What is it about former Treasurers?
What is it about former treasurers? I don’t know who was the more vicious — Paul Keating or Peter Costello. Both are reported this morning giving the controllers of the NSW Labor Party a terrible bake. Peter Costello writes how NSW’s big Ponzi scam has finally collapsed while Paul Keating declares the likely new state Labor Leader […]
Crikey Says: The holy trinity of Hawke/Keating/Howard
Did the holy trinity of Hawke/Keating/Howard do it differently?
How does Gillard the Oz day orator stack up with former PMs?
How did Julia Gillard’s Australia Day speech stack up with those of her predecessors? Crikey spoke with Joel Deane, a poet, novelist and former chief speechwriter for Premiers Steve Bracks and John Brumby.
Hey Watson, first rule of speechwriting: the words aren’t yours
When I read Don Watson’s comments about the Redfern speech my overwhelming feeling was embarrassment, writes speechwriter, poet and novelist Joel Deane.
Crikey Says: That other former Labor leader…
He’s feisty, he’s a pugilist, a former Labor leader and he lives, mainly, in his own political past. The most exciting ex-leader in Australia is Paul Keating, and he’s at it again today.
Paul Keating: Bugger Don Watson, Redfern was my speech
Stop giving Don Watson all the credit for the famous Redfern speech, they were my thoughts and my sentiments and I dictated them to Watson, declares former PM Paul Keating.
How to swear in politics
Deprived of the outrageous gaffes and old-fashioned biffo from this fizzer of an election season, we’re romanticising the days of feistier Hawke and Keating who often lashed their abusive tongues, writes Piers Kelly.
Hunger for a story v right to privacy: can the media balance both?
Am I wrong in thinking that there is a change coming in attitudes to the thing that so many in the community regard as an oxymoron: journalism ethics? Paul Keating offered an unassailable argument for sensible privacy legislation.
Keating slams media hypocrisy
University PR flaks buzzed anxiously as Crikey arrived at the University of Melbourne’s Carrillo Gantner Theatre last night to witness Paul Keating wade into the election campaign via a well-researched speech on the media’s notorious allergy to privacy.
