Crikey understands that Lance Armstrong pocketed up to $3 million in cash for his recent visit to Adelaide, reports Bob Gosford.
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Colin Barnett and the perils of recycled leaders
The Liberal Party is short of leaders, writes Charles Richardson, and recycling past failures isn’t working. Nor is it likely to work at the Federal level.
Rudd rejects Labor cronyism, tolerates personal cronyism
Rudd is rejecting Labor Party cronyism with some appointments but embracing personal cronyism with others. By Stephen Mayne
Crikey Says: Crikey says
He’s the Bert Newton of Australian politics: the polished performer whose gift for spontaneous, stiffly splenetic wit was honed in tougher vaudevillian times, times when having a personality meant more than booking an in-store appearance from Sophie Monk. “He” is of course Paul Keating, a man who knows how to milk a moment in the public […]
The final last chance to save the Murray is now
Pollies have one final chance to save the lower reaches of the Murray river. Will they take it? Thoms Hunter investigates.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Fairfax’s online tabloids … another scandal another “gate” … the republican debate … Belinda Neal … Babcock & Brown …
SA talks tough on prisons; contravenes UN Convention
Recent comments about prisons and prisoners by the SA government show a clear intention to flout its obligations under UN connections on human rights, writes Greg Barns.
SA’s Indigenous report confirms: we must act now
Sadly, there are no surprises, just a continuation of the horror that we have already seen in the Northern Territory and Queensland, writes Peter Faris.
South Australia: The Authoritarian State
The South Australian government’s new serious crimes bill could have been lifted straight from the statute books of any number of authoritarian regimes dotted around the globe, writes Greg Barns.
