South australian


Mackerras: Memo Fran Kelly, the psephologist always knows

Fran Kelly should read Crikey more thoroughly than she does. I say that because I heard her on ABC Radio National this morning say that “No one is predicting a landslide”. I have been predicting landslides to Labor ever since the election was called, writes Malcolm Mackerras.

Alexander Downer and the not so great debate

It’s impossible to stop the Coalition’s attack spaniel, Alexander Downer, from chasing after cars. Yesterday he went yapping at the heels of the South Australian state transport minister, Pat Conlon.

Xenophon sets the cats amongst the pigeons

The emergence of anti-pokies campaigner Nick Xenophon as a South Australian Senate candidate is the most exciting development in the struggle for upper house control that we’ve seen all year, writes Stephen Mayne.