Wayne Swan is acting a lot more modest over the Australian economy’s GFC rebound than Paul “the recession we had to have” Keating, writes Peter Hartcher. But it’s thanks to Keating and Peter Costello that we avoided further trouble
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Crikey Says: Rudd leads the nation, not the ALP
The Coalition should give up — its best and brightest have left politics and now work for Kevin Rudd. And Rudd’s power as national leader now looks unassailable.
Keating on the stairs: beating or beat up?
Insiders say a Sunday Telegraph alleging Paul Keating’s daughter kicked and threatened to kill one of its photographers was at best a beat-up, and at-worst a total fabrication.
Keating, a rusted-on luvvie, leaves a legacy
Guy Rundle’s recent assault on Paul Keating’s cultural cred was irritating and thrilling by turns, writes arts reporter Stephen Feneley — it shouldn’t be so surprising arts folk have such fond memories of Keating given what came after him.
The death of Tozer and Keating’s romancing of genius
The death of pianist Geoffrey Tozer raises questions about Paul Keating and the attitudes about art and civilisation that he projected — and continues to project — onto this country.
Kerr: More Pat Boone than Paul Keating
Kevin Rudd and rock ‘n roll? Christian Kerr can’t quite see it. Now Paul Keating, there was a punk rock Prime Minister…
Hartcher: Howard animates the dead corpse of the Coalition
The ghost of John Howard remains the leader of the Liberal Party in spirit, with the Coalition mimicking his ambiguity on climate change and immigration, writes Peter Hartcher. Can Turnbull come up with new ideas?
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Disaster and the media
Crikey readers weigh in on how the media copes with the natural disasters besetting our Pacific and Asian neighbours and the messy climate change debate continues.
Telstra decision is just good policy
There’s an element of politics in Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s decision to break Telstra up. But it’s also good policy that finally corrects the huge mistake Bob Hawke and Kim Beazley made.
Political snippets: Libs need to start playing the blame game
If the Libs want to get Kevin Rudd, what is needed are lots of horrid pictures of suffering people all caused by Federal Labor’s inability to carry out the commitments made so blithely by Mr All Talk — No Action man.
Mungo MacCallum: We deserve better than legacy wars
Here we are, nearly two years out of the Howard years and happily consigning them to well-deserved oblivion. Then Paul Kelly released his book, and they all came lurching out of the political cemetery.
What if it’s not the economy, stupid?
Kevin Rudd claimed that neo-liberalism was no longer the dominant paradigm for governments and he was right. But can he extend his critique to those left-over policies that have not been appropriately looked at?
Crikey Says: Rudd can’t claim reform credit yet
There are three men truly entitled to reflect on responsibility for Australia’s economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s: Hawke, Keating and Howard.
VIDEO: Keating the reason we’ve avoided recession, says Abbott
The fight to take responsibility for Australia’s good economic fortune continues. In today’s Australian, John Howard tells off Kevin Rudd for his bipartisanship on the issue. Here, Tony Abbott credits Paul Keating … and Howard’s support role.
Gillard finally hits a bump in the road
The stimulus schools building blow out has taken some of the shine off Julia Gillard’s halo. The pollie being touted as the PM-in-waiting shouldn’t have been put up on a pedestal, writes Laurie Oakes.
Video of the Day: If Hawke, Keating, Howard and Rudd had been journos
Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard and Kevin Rudd all fancy themselves as better journos than the real thing, says George Megalogenis. But how would each have really fared if they’d chosen the Fourth Estate over the Third?
Whitlam’s Grandchildren: what the Class of 2007 can tell us about the ALP
Comparing ALP MPs who made their Parliamentary debut after the party’s win in 2007 with those who sat for the first time in 1983 can provide some interesting insights into the evolution of Australia’s longest-living political party, writes Trevor Cook.
Mungo MacCallum: Calling for a government restructure to address Aboriginal issues
The one size fits all approach of the intervention is plainly inappropriate to societies as diverse as Indigenous Australia, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Keating’s eye on the tiger
The full text of Paul Keating’s John Curtin Prime Ministerial lecture last night, where he took aim at Rudd for being anti-China.
Breakfast Media Wrap: Our new Leader of the Opposition
Richard Farmer dishes out the best of the morning media.
Keating’s curse: why tax cuts are still on the menu
Wayne Swan must curse Paul Keating’s 1993 backflip on the L-A-W tax cut, writes Lenore Taylor. It’s the reason why he and Rudd won’t wriggle out of tax-cut promises, whether or not they have the money.
Paul Keating struts up to Fashion Week
Want to know what Paul Keating wore to the opening of Fashion Week? Of course you do. News.com.au has an extensive report.
After failed coup, Australian Jockey Club is knackered
The venerable Australian Jockey Club has only been half-saved by the cabal calling itself Save Our AJC.
The Liberal Party’s long history of playing the race card
Despite Joe Hockey’s indignant posturing over the weekend, the fact is that the Liberal Party has used race over the past two decades for its own political advantage, writes Greg Barns.
