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Bandt, Slipper, Windsor, Katter, Oakeshott, Thomson, Crook: they all stand in the way of Stephen Conroy’s media reforms. So how will they vote? Crikey intern Carrington Clarke asked them.

Crikey readers have their say.

Amid tumbling international carbon markets and calls to weaken the carbon pricing scheme, Fergus Green makes the case for retaining an Australian carbon price floor at Inside Story.

It seems appropriate during the ALP leadership squabble that one of those hung parliament initiatives that sealed Julia Gillard’s prime ministership, a new think tank dedicated to regional issues is set to launch next week.

This week’s tax summit — sorry, forum — comes with low expectations, and so far seems to be meeting them.

It’s hard to imagine anything at all coming from tomorrow’s tax forum when we have a deeply unpopular minority government committed to a $47.7 billion budget turnaround within two years.

A purportedly “independent newspaper” set up by National Party staffers to secretly attack Lyne MP Rob Oakeshott under the cover of journalistic impartiality has collapsed.

Rob Oakeshott is being targeted by a new media outlet in his electorate, one with some interesting links to his opponents.

An angry debate among financial planners has revealed some of the serious problems in the wealth management industry.

There are some key changes from Rudd’s CPRS that reflect both the influence of the Greens and Ross Garnaut in its development.

Crikey reads have their say.

Crikey readers have their say.

Harry Jenkins was never the most authoritative of speakers but is losing the ability to control question time — fast. And this class of pollies is desperately in need of control.

Correction: Brenden Hills, The Sunday Telegraph, writes: Re. “Tips and rumours” (yesterday, item 8). Crikey published: “The co-author of the Sunday Telegraph’s “Carbon” Cate Blanchett beat-up, Brenden Hills, is fondly remembered by Labor advisers for an amusing performance during the NSW state election campaign. Spies say Hills ventured down to Pitt Street’s Civic Hotel one […]

Reforms designed to restore confidence in the financial services sector are at risk of being derailed following intense lobbying, writes James Frost, of Eureka Report.

Independent member for Lyne, Rob Oakeshott, believes The Australian is contributing to a decline in his electoral popularity, but Richard Farmer isn’t convinced.

Shock jocks aren’t journalists, but they should have the decency to treat the political leaders of this country with a little bit of respect, because the recent rudeness just lowers the — already low — standard of public debate, declares Phillip Coorey.

This new paradigm is more of a new play pen, with Australian politicians trading the most pathetic insults and playing childish games with each other, writes Annabel Crabb.