The losers in this week’s education reforms are likely to make their disappointment known, but the winners will probably not follow suit. Plus other political issues of the day.
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Follow Crikey’s latest coverage of Simon Crean. Crikey’s Simon Crean coverage includes independent news, blogs and commentary.
Post-Crean, arts shake-up begins — with winners and losers
Simon Crean is gone, but the Gillard government is pressing on with its Australia Council reforms. It might face opposition to the decision to scrap artform-specific representation.
READ MORERichard Farmer’s chunky bits
The gender bias in scientific studies, plus other political issues of the day.
READ MOREKeane: super is upper-class welfare and a swindle
It’s predictable that media outlets aimed at the wealthy would defend the current superannuation tax rorts, which see the poor boost the retirement savings of the very rich. So why is Simon Crean defending it?
READ MOREThe strangely malleable legacy of the Hawke-Keating years
Labor figures who now invoke the Hawke-Keating legacy appear to have forgotten what actually happened back then. And if Labor really wants to embrace the H and K era, here’s what they should do on superannuation …
READ MOREThe 15 shades of Gary Gray — Labor on the edge of the abyss
What’s wrong with Labor? Well, everything … but here are at least 15 of the reasons. Let’s start with Gary Gray.
READ MORETips and rumours
Nervous times at the ABC? … Crikey banned from Rupert’s ball … Tassie council sees the light on Easter …
READ MOREiSentia Index: last hurrah for MPs as Labor self-destructs
Senior Labor MPs went down in a blaze of media coverage after they fell on their swords following the spill that wasn’t.
READ MORESingle motherhood not a ‘problem’
Crikey readers talk adoption, Simon Crean and the leadership spill that wasn’t.
READ MOREVale, Simon Crean
Crikey readers bid farewell to Simon Crean, talk Vatican ambassadors and give thanks to First Dog on the Moon.
READ MORERichard Farmer’s chunky bits: a croc and a crock
Australian politics has come to a pretty pass when a politician is ridiculed for having told the truth. Kevin Rudd and Simon Crean, each in his own way, has suffered from this strange phenomenon since yesterday’s challenge that wasn’t.
READ MORERuddversal: Labor goes from very bad to even worse
Labor is now a bitterly-divided party with considerable talent sitting idle on the backbench and a huge defeat looming. The main question is will Tony Abbott win both houses of Parliament?
READ MOREMy Cup of Tea: Crean’s cultural policy in jeopardy
Simon Crean’s suicide mission has left Australia without an arts minister. Is the recently developed cultural policy dead in the water?
READ MOREGillard’s leadership intact, but her wrecked party is not
A very tough Julia Gillard came through today’s spill with her leadership intact. But what’s the damage done to the ALP, and how on earth can the party come back from this to win the election?
READ MORECrean’s coup flops as Rudd fades away
Simon Crean’s impassioned speech this afternoon imploring Kevin Rudd to challenge for the Labor leadership took everyone by surprise — most especially Kevin Rudd.
READ MOREThe key players in their own words
Crikey tracks what the key players said in a dramatic day for the Gillard government.
READ MOREHow the day unfolded: anatomy of a failed coup
After an afternoon of high drama, Julia Gillard has survived a coup sparked by ex-frontbencher Simon Crean (Crean called on Gillard for a spill). Gillard remains PM. Read how the failed leadership bid unfolded.
READ MORERichard Farmer’s chunky bits
Too many entrants to the Daily Leadership Beat-Up Award to even choose a winner, plus other political issues of the day.
READ MORECrikey Clarifier: local government recognition in the constitution
Would recognising local government in the constitution protect essential services or undermine states’ rights? Public policy and governance expert Stephen Bartos answers Crikey’s questions.
READ MOREArts funding winners grin, but some criticism for Crean report
As the dust begins to settle on Simon Crean’s Creative Australia policy, most arts and cultural leaders have been overwhelmingly supportive of the new plan. But there are a few dissenting voices.
READ MOREDelahunty: kudos to Crean for prising arts money from Treasury
Former Victorian ALP arts minister Mary Delahunty reflects on how hard it is to get money out of Treasury boffins for the arts, and provides a few pointers to would-be arts ministers.
READ MORENational Cultural Policy out at last — and it’s a big win for arts
The federal government’s National Cultural Policy, released today, is a big win for the arts generally — it’s got new money and plenty of policy reform. But there are losers.
READ MORELabor are ‘philistines’ on arts: Brandis ignites policy debate
Get set: we might finally be about to have a genuine debate on arts policy. Ahead of the long-awaited release of Labor’s National Cultural Policy, shadow minister George Brandis fires up to Crikey.
READ MORECreative partnerships: a new approach to giving in the arts
Philanthropy in the arts is due for a shake-up. Crikey talks to the CEO of the federal government’s new arts philanthropy organisation, Creative Partnerships Australia.
READ MOREGovt kills the (community) radio stars, stations fear
Community radio — which plays more Australian music than commercial rivals — relies on a government-funded project to put tracks to air. But will that money be there in 2013?
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