If governments were businesses you’d want them to operate in this way: what could be more reassuring to the stockholder than planned, well-co-ordinated, orderly succession.
Peter beattie
Crikey Says: Crikey Says – Beattie resigns
Beattie picks his moment and goes out with consummate style
Though he’s often been derided as a media tart and a shameless populist, Beattie is a superb politician with a genuine common touch, writes Mark Bahnisch.
The Tuesday Top 20 (on Wednesday)
A powerhouse performance by the PM has left Kevin Rudd eating dust in the Crikey/Media Monitors Top 20 for the week of 14-20 August. Of course, this was before strippergate…
The Tuesday Top 20
It’s back to business as usual in the Crikey/Media Monitors Top 20 for the week of 31 July – 6 August.
Haneef: privileged insiders wield anti-terror law with gay abandon
The shenanigans of the last weeks stem less from a conscious plot than from the collective inability of many senior political and media figures to comprehend why civil liberties should matter, writes Jeff Sparrow.
The Tuesday Top 20 (on Wednesday)
The changing of the guard on Spring Street – and other state pollies trying to crash the party – means we’ve got a very different list of acts in the Crikey/Media Monitors Top 20.
The Tuesday Top Twenty
He admitted he was a media tart years ago, so it should come as not surprise that Peter Beattie continues to hang round the top of the Crikey/Media Monitors Top Twenty for the week of 26 June-2 July.
London, Glasgow, Brisbane: UK terror links to Queensland
Attorney General Philip Ruddock and AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty and Queensland Premier Peter Beattie and his police commissioner have given media conference this morning in the wake of the arrest of a Queensland hospital registrar recruited from the UK at Brisbane International airport last night after advice from UK authorities investigating last week’s terror attacks in England and Scotland, writes Christian Kerr.
The Tuesday Top Twenty
Peter Costello has been toppled. The Treasurer has tumbled down the charts in this week’s Crikey/Media Monitors Top Twenty, pushed out by a trio of premiers – Peter Beattie, Morris Iemma and Steve Bracks.
