There has hardly been any public reaction to what I think is a momentous move by Fairfax: merging the Canberra staff of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald into one bureau, writes Michael Gawenda.
Press gallery
Fashions on the Hill: politics gets gussied up
The Midwinter Press Gallery Ball is Canberra’s night of nights. And as with all red-carpet events worth their salt, it’s now time for us to brutally judge the attendees on their fashion sense.
Political snippets: Budget winners and losers
The media can’t decide whether tax cuts will or won’t survive the Federal Budget.
RATED RUDE The Press Gallery arrive for the Annual Christmas Drinks at the Lodge
Everyone queued up outside…
Christmas time in the Press Gallery
Of Movember and annual party Christmas parties.
The Australian: L’Étranger, le joke
The Australian is now officially detached. From reality, writes Bernard Keane.
We’re the party that ate itself: Democrat insiders tell
At thirty years of age, the Australian Democrats are terminally ill when they should be in their prime, write former staffers John Cherry and Vivienne Wynter.
Jason Koutsoukis: showing how the job could – and should – be done
Good on Jason Koutsoukis. He may not be the most polished, experienced, wise or measured of the denizens of the Canberra Press gallery, but in his column in yesterday’s Sunday Age he managed to show something of how the job could – and should – be done.
How can we ever trust the Canberra Press Gallery?
The question Canberra journalists would like us to be asking today is whether we can trust Peter Costello and his relationship with John Howard. The other urgent question is whether we can trust the Canberra Press Gallery, argues Margaret Simons.
The Mungo-meter: Bias can be a matter of judgement
There are those journalists who pick sides from birth and never change, whatever the circumstances. For reasons of temperament, heredity or because the Pope tells them, they remain rusted on to one side or the other.
