How did Paul Keating — albeit momentarily — become the new Lara Bingle? Stephen Downes investigates.
Paul Keating
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.
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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.
Flint: Rudd will tax your super, where’s the outcry?
Labor will end tax free superannuation, according to one of its most prominent campaigners. When Peter Costello surprised and delighted the nation with his revolutionary, absolutely tax-free, superannuation policy, he estimated the government would forgo $7 billion over four years, but that would rise as babyboomers drew down their superannuation, writes David Flint.
Shut it, Pete
Back in the go-go eighties, Paul Keating learnt he could move the markets with his tongue. He soon became more circumspect. Peter Costello has failed to achieve the same feat today, writes Christian Kerr.
MacCormack: Howard suddenly worm-eaten
For a debate that covered such worthy topics as interest rates, taxation, industrial relations and the response to global warming, the longer-term impact of Sunday night on the election campaign seems to lie with utterly trivial matters that have taken on a heavy symbolism, writes David MacCormack.
Crikey Cabbie Panel: Who won the leaders’ debate?
The worm controversially returned for last night’s leaders debate and almost stole the show. But worms aside, Crikey Cabbies were this morning asked for their verdicts. Who won, and why?
Errington: Haven’t we heard all this before?
Anyone else getting an eerie feeling that we’ve heard it all before? Someone with a better memory than I pointed out that Labor’s New Leadership slogan was pilfered from the ill-fated Mondale run for the American presidency in 1984, writes Wayne Errington.
Alan Kohler: 2007 another good election to win
The reason I think Kevin Rudd and the ALP will be good for investors is not part of the election campaign, and probably won’t be: they are likely to be better managers of prosperity than John Howard.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
The letters pages of The Australian ran a piece of correspondence from former PM Paul Keating today. Unfortunately, they omitted the final paragraph…
Shock, horror: Politicians interested in political opportunities
The ALP would not be all the concerned by the front page lead in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week claiming that Labor Party members are jockeying for the positions that may be available if their party actually wins the forthcoming election. Really? Richard Farmer ponders the obvious.
Mixing the polls: Monday edition
Today’s Mumble poll-mix contains some good news for the Coalition - relatively speaking. It averages the three polls from the last fortnight - a Newspoll, a Morgan and today’s Galaxy - giving greater weight to the most recent.
