When you change the government, you change the country. So, after a year of Labor, how is Australia different? asks Mungo MacCallum.
Paul Keating 
Commentary we had to have: Keating on rates, ratings and ratchets
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating spoke this morning with the ABC radio’s Ali Moore.
Keating nails it – except for the problem of financial churn
Australia’s public sector is in overall deficit and will only cease to be a net foreign borrower in this environment if projected infrastructure spending is slashed, writes Stephen Mayne.
Costello overlooks his own unpopularity in memoir
Costello’s argument is that if John Howard had managed the transition issue better, Prime Minister Costello would now be calling the shots, writes Bernard Keane.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
The Olympics … the Murray Darling Basin … electric cars … Paul Keating …
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Paul Keating … the Beijing Olympics … Facebook … water buybacks … Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn …
Once upon a time … Rudd needs a narrative
If the Government doesn’t provide a narrative, the media will provide one or more for them, writes Bernard Keane.
Tips and Rumours
Christmas window construction horror: Myer’s famous Melbourne Christmas Windows are under threat this year, due to the renovation of the Bourke St building. The retailer has been quietly looking at ‘plan b’ options for the windows, which normally front the Bourke St mall. This could see the windows moved to the less appealing and smaller […]
Keating, the greatest hits so far
Where would we be without the collected wit and wisdom of P.J. Keating?
The Keating OZ ad bingle: What the bloody hell’s going on?
How did Paul Keating — albeit momentarily — become the new Lara Bingle? Stephen Downes investigates.
How NSW Labor learned to forget policy and love private power
Former ALP pollies are somehow managing to forget that the anti-privatisation decision in NSW has been ALP policy since 1997, writes Alex Mitchell.
Conflicted Keating’s retro-analysis does him no favours
Although he is a national living treasure, Paul Keating has done himself no good by weighing into the war between Premier Morris Iemma and the NSW Labor Party, writes Alex Mitchell.
Will big spending John Brumby do a Keating?
Crikey might finally be back in the Federal budget lock-up next week but strange information gate-keepers remain in place in Victoria. Stephen Mayne reports.
Paul Keating’s John Button tribute
Former Labor senator John Button died overnight at 74. We were waiting for a fitting tribute, then along came Paul Keating. This is what he thought.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Bring back Paul Keating! (In a limited way…)
The Highly Secret Bureau of Niftiness
Deep in the bowels of Parliament House.
The Senate comes through again for democracy
Four weeks after the election, we finally have the full Senate results. There were no surprises; the only state that was particularly close was Victoria, where the ALP beat the Greens for the last vacancy by about 17,000 votes, writes Charles Richardson.
Sorting fact from fiction in Kevin’s faction dealings
Prime Minister elect Kevin Rudd keeps asserting he chose his own ministerial team rather than having the selections of internal groups ratified by a token vote of the Parliamentary Labor Party. There were always discussions between the leader and the leaders of the factions before the factions settled on their choices, says Richard Farmer
Will Wayne Swan protect the world’s most expensive banking system?
New Treasurer Wayne Swan was very keen not to frighten the banking horses during the election campaign, when his distanced himself from Peter Costello’s jawboning on interest rate rises, writes Stephen Mayne.
Reality check: Honey, I doomed the universe
Everything that can go wrong with the John Howard election campaign is going wrong so it would not be surprising to learn that the astronomers who may have unwittingly hastened the end of the universe by simply looking at it were using a Liberal Party telescope, writes Richard Farmer.
Errington: Is John Howard turning into Paul Keating?
The similarities between John Howard and his old nemesis, Paul Keating, have piled up during this campaign. Perhaps after a few years, all prime ministers start to sound the same, writes Wayne Errington.
MacCormack: Is panic setting in for desperate Libs?
Two signs of desperation from the Liberals yesterday. Is panic finally setting in? asks David MacCormack.
Bahnisch: “Doc” Howard looks back to the future again
At yesterday’s policy launch, John Howard and his merry band did their utmost to confirm Paul Keating’s adage that their view of a modern Australia is coloured by a serious streak of nostalgia for the white picket fence, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
One last scare campaign with interest … doctors’ wives and North Sydney … The Oz and interest rates … Turnbull on gay super … Facebook whingers …
Rates up and the rhetoric lines are drawn
We now have an interest rate rise. Barring something like a terrorist outrage, we now also have the parameters of debate for the remaining two weeks of the campaign – the final weeks when we will crystallise our choice.
