Solicitor


Your local member used to be a cruise master

The long and winding road to Canberra has many pit stops (just ask dirty commie Julia Gillard) — Crikey has trawled through the official CVs of the ministry and their respective shadows, without cherry picking, to see what kind of pasts have shaped their politics.

TABcorp loophole lets NSW punters beg and borrow

There’s a new chapter in the grubby history of the NSW government’s gambling addiction and the sway gambling operators have over Macquarie Street and it comes from an interesting source: www.news.com.au, rather than one of the Murdoch newspapers.

John Howard and matters of high principle

Love me or loathe me, people accept that I stand for something,” the Prime Minister claimed on The 7:30 Report last night. Really, Prime Minister? Are you sure? Writes Christian Kerr.