The media love to talk about themselves and were breathless on Labor’s proposed media reforms. But audiences gave a big shrug, more interested in a new Pope.
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Media reform: how the House crossbenchers will vote
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.
READ MORERichard Farmer’s chunky bits: Oakeshott speaks the truth
“Senior representatives” from both sides of politics, Rob Oakeshott tells the ABC this morning, have contacted him and expressed a willingness to reconsider the GST. It’s just that they don’t want to talk about it until after the next election.
READ MORERichard Farmer’s chunky bits: the other election that will influence the world
The influence of China’s old guard looks like living on in the other election this week that is sure to influence the whole world. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post reports that conservatives appear poised to dominate the Communist Party’s new leadership.
READ MOREPodcast: Crikey/OurSay grill the independent MPs
In a Crikey Live event, Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane put your questions to independent MPs Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor. Listen to the discussion.
READ MOREWhy buy a pretentious tabloid when you can have the real thing?
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MORECarbon price: don’t mention the floor
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.
READ MORENew think tank for regions fulfils hung parliament promise
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.
READ MOREOakeshott, Windsor biomass burner scheme Pythonesque
Substituting native forest biomass for another renewable generation source is particularly problematic because of the nature of the technology, writes Andrew Macintosh, associate director of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy.
READ MORENewspoll: support plunges for Windsor and Oakeshott
The latest Newspoll survey shows support for independent MPs Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott has taken a dive in their own electorates, though the means of determining the results was particularly problematic, writes William Bowe.
READ MOREStates sing the same old tune at tax forum
This week’s tax summit — sorry, forum — comes with low expectations, and so far seems to be meeting them.
READ MOREKohler: a smudge on Henry’s tax blueprint
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.
READ MOREPort Paper company collapses after Oakeshott cries foul
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.
READ MOREThe peculiar provenance of The Port Paper and its polling
Rob Oakeshott is being targeted by a new media outlet in his electorate, one with some interesting links to his opponents.
READ MOREFinancial planners talk candidly about wealth management
An angry debate among financial planners has revealed some of the serious problems in the wealth management industry.
READ MORECarbon tax: key changes reflect the Greens, Garnaut
There are some key changes from Rudd’s CPRS that reflect both the influence of the Greens and Ross Garnaut in its development.
READ MOREEducating the electorate
Crikey reads have their say.
READ MOREThe war in Afghanistan paradox
Crikey readers have their say.
READ MOREOakeshott has wrecked Jenkins’ authority — and it shows
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.
READ MORECarbon tax, celebrities and climate change
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 […]
READ MOREOakeshott capitulates over financial advice reforms
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.
READ MOREDoubts about Oakeshott’s judgment
Independent member for Lyne, Rob Oakeshott, believes The Australian is contributing to a decline in his electoral popularity, but Richard Farmer isn’t convinced.
READ MOREOakeshott’s Twitter fail … bananas & Libya … NYT journos free …
We’re all for pollies getting on the Twitter, it provides them a chance to show a more human side to that tough Canberran exterior. Except when the 140 characters are typed in caps lock. Plus, other media news…
READ MORECoorey: A shock(jock)ing lack of respect
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.
READ MORECrabb: The giant sooking babies leading our country
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.
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