Fixed four-year terms means that once you’ve decided to keep a stale government in place they will rot before your own eyes for the entire term. Plus, the cheap book prices hike and trouble in The Age advertising.
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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Labor sniggers quietly into their lattes
Why exactly is the Labor government staying quiet while Tony Abbott blabs his mouth to the media about his plans to take full control over the Murray-Darling Basin if elected?
Tips and rumours: Who is the new Queensland Union boss? Hint: he likes Akubras
Who will replace Jan McLucas in the Senate? Hint: someone with a penchant for Akubras. Also, Rudd money niceness backfires and Quest journalists’ pay rates.
Tips and rumours: When newspapers have no journos
An editor from Quest Newspapers tells tales of newspapers with no journalists, Channel Nine is set for a makeover, the battle for business journalism gossip hots up, and more top tips.
Tips and rumours
Last night I was a guest on a corporate table at Gerard Henderson’s Sydney Institute Lecture by Kevin Rudd, with Sydney’s social A-List present. Given all the negative commentary about the quality of the PM’s speeches, I was eager to see how he performed in person. As for delivery, he was flat and wooden, apart […]
Tips and rumours
Just a small point of amusement. A lot of the photos from Brendy Nelson’s listening tour are of decent enough quality. But you’ll notice a couple of shockers from his visit to a primary school. I’m sure this will be because of the age-old problem facing political staffers - release forms for children. No political […]
Tips and rumours
Tony Mokbel and Opes Prime. According to a lawyers acting for one of the lending banks, apparently the Opes Prime crisis has been precipitated (at least in part) by the involvement of a huge amount of Tony Mokbel’s money which has been invested in or through Opes (using offshore companies or nominee accounts of course). I have […]
