In the aftermath of Queensland — a place that, like Vietnam or Dresden or Hell, has become an event — it’s worth revisiting a debate that’s been going on round Leftish traps, regarding the ALP in power.
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WikiLeaks breach … Scientology v New Yorker … Advertiser apologises …
In today’s Media Briefs: scientology strikes back at The New Yorker, The Financial Times heads out of iTunes, ABC boss defends outsourcing to independent sector and more …
READ MOREA slow motion crisis
There’s unlikely to be any early end to the fuss over Craig Thomson and the use of his credit card.
READ MOREMemo, Peter Beattie: Consult before pushing simplistic prostate cancer screening messages
Before high-profile figures such as Peter Beattie hit the public stage pushing prostate cancer screening, they could do worse than read up on the subject.
READ MOREKing: Give Bligh daylight savings and she’ll sell that too
What happened to the women that Queenslanders voted in? asks Madonna King. Premier Anna Bligh sold off all the state’s assets and now is trying to escape scrutiny by talking about trivial issues.
READ MOREWhy is Bligh so private?
It was politically irrational and not economically explainable why Anna Bligh would privatise major public assets like Queensland Rail. So why do it? What purpose does a state government have? asks Mark Bahnisch.
READ MORETips and rumours: Abbott’s spooky new staffer
Tony Abbott’s new foreign affairs adviser is an international man of mystery, Anthony Chisholm could be facing a factional bloodbath, non-profits cashing in on the insulation scheme and more hot tips from Crikey readers.
READ MOREHair shirts will strangle Labor
Labor pollies are lining up to done the hair-shirt, from Kevin Rudd to John Brumby. But Peter Beattie’s ‘apologise constantly and hope they vote for you anyway’ method doesn’t always work. Stick to your policy guns, says The Oz.
READ MOREHow Bligh blew the QLD premiership
Just eight months after Anna Bligh was elected QLD premier, voter satisfaction has dropped to just 30%, thanks to privatisation of state assets, broken election promises and scrapping petrol subsides. Is her decline terminal? asks Cosima Marriner.
READ MOREFocus and politics
Crikey readers weigh in on the political media cycle that pollies are sucked in to, Rupert Murdoch’s views on the cost of journalism and the years of the Beattie government.
READ MOREToo many ruined lives in the wake of the Beattie Government
Eventually, the culture of bullying and cronyism that marked the Beattie Government in Queensland must surely be exposed. There are too many unanswered questions, too many ruined lives and wrecked careers, to stay in denial about it forever.
READ MOREMinisters run riot: remembering QLD under Beattie
The conviction of Gordon Nuttall, a senior member of Peter Beattie’s Government, reinforces the sense that Queensland Labor under Beattie was ready to tolerate appalling standards in ministers.
READ MOREWrecked lives and compensation: the MP staffer scandal
Elections are no preparation for many of the tasks required of MPs, writes Bernard Keane.
READ MORETake off the Rose-coloured glasses Australian Story!
Australian Story as another media trawling of the Rose Beattie saga comes up with little more than water haul, writes Chris Johnson.
READ MOREABC on Merri Rose: not the full story
Australian Story continued its finest whitewashing tradition by providing half an hour for former Minister Merri Rose to explain how she was a victim, writes Bernard Keane
READ MOREHow land clearing became a Howard bumper crop
If we want to use native forests as a means to avoid doing something about climate change, we first have to slow the pace at which we’re destroying them – legally and illegally, writes Bernard Keane.
READ MOREMerri Rose case fails to excite the CMC
Hypocrisy is a key ingredient in public life, writes Bernard Keane.
READ MORETips and rumours
It now seems that the discovery of a Federal Police operative working out of the office of the CFMEU Furnishing divisions is about to explode in the faces of those who employed him and why! Fireworks expected. Former Queensland Premier Peter Beattie blew his stack at the weekend over the resurfacing of allegations that he […]
READ MORECMC allegations of relationship between Beattie and Rose
The Queensland Opposition has referred serious allegations to the Queensland Crime and Misconduct Commission, writes Bernard Keane.
READ MORERichard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Defending the indefensible … McCain winning from Democrat fighting … The Daily Reality Check … The Pick of the Easter Weekend Political Coverage …
READ MORERichard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Same, same but different … An agent of influence … A record number of working families … The Daily Reality Check … The Pick of this Morning’s Political Coverage …
READ MORESpringborg’s ‘United Conservative’ dream is already dead in the water
Lawrence Springborg’s dream of a “United Conservative Party” was buried the day after he returned to the leadership when four Liberal Senators, led by frontbencher George Brandis SC, gave it the public kiss of death, writes Mark Bahnisch.
READ MOREKevin hits the ground running
So much for suggestions of summer slackness. We now know how hitting the ground running really works, writes Christian Kerr.
READ MORENats-Libs merger in Queensland? Good luck
Queensland opposition leader Jeff Seeney is so confident of his “new party with one plan, one leader” that he’s selling it as a template to be adopted nationally down the track. Not so fast, writes Mark Bahnisch.
READ MOREThe Tuesday Top 20
Talk about a phoney campaign! The meeja are almost giving the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition equal time, the Crikey/Media Monitors Top 20 for the week of 18-24 September shows.
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