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Mungo MacCallum: Greens and climate change … welcome back to the real world
So with a great (self-trumpeted) fanfare, the Greens have returned to the climate change debate — and about bloody time.
2009: the year in Canberra
Bernard Keane takes a look back at some of the key events of the year in federal politics.
The 2009 Crikey Arsehat Awards
From Vegemite’s iSnack 2.0 to Andrew Bolt to the overuse of the phrase “A great big tax”, Crikey readers vote on the biggest Arsehats of 2009.
Crikey Says: Once more with Fielding, find him a scientist
If you’re reading this, and you’re based in Copenhagen right now, the Australian taxpayer would be greatly obliged if you could point Senator Fielding in the direction of a qualified scientist.
Fake Stephen Fielding: PMS and a One World Government
Fake Stephen Fielding has been following the climate change and Emissions Trading Scheme debate very closely, and is very excited at the prospect of a One World Government.
How to become a federal MP: the minor parties
Just what does it take to ascend to the lofty heights of federal parliament in a minor party? It seems that compared to the factionally obsessed Libs and Labor, the preselection process is a reasonably democratic one.
Crikey Says: The Trioli Awards
Crikey honours ABC2 host Virginia Trioli’s finger-twirling candour with a new award for public waffle.
Combat climate change: rid the world of Steve Fielding
Looking to make some meaningful actions on climate change? Why not start by removing Steve Fielding — and his irrelevant interjections — from the national debate, suggests Sophie Black.
Crikey Says: Stimulus is doing its job
The benefits of the stimulus package are being examined right now by the Economics Committee. But it’s the jobs saved or supported by the stimuli that are the only important economic indicators at the moment.
Rudd will go to the polls on August 21, 2010. Here’s why
Malcolm MacKerras predicts the double dissolution will be effected in July 2010, causing a general election for all members of both houses to take place on August 21, 2010.
Grattan: Fielding calls for conscience vote
Senator Steve Fielding is calling for a conscience vote for Coalition MPs on the ETS, saying that they ”should not capitulate to the Government’s demands simply because it is afraid of giving … a double dissolution trigger”.
Crikey Says: The tongue twisting tales of the RBA
What the Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens said yesterday about interest rates and the economy and what others heard him say are two very different things.
Conroy’s internet filter dread
Senator Stephen Conroy must soon set aside the joys of taking the axe to Telstra — satisfying though that must be — and return to a topic he surely dreads: internet censorship.
Small parties to be squeezed out of Senate?
Electoral reform of the Senate is being floated by the government, in the hope that the likes of Steve Fielding will never get elected on preferences alone, again.
Politics has failed climate change
Crikey readers weigh in on climate change and
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Kyle and the meeja
Crikey readers continue to weigh in on Steve Fielding’s spelling issues and whether Godwin’s Law will bring down vile Kyle Sandilands.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The cash splash of the stimulus
Crikey readers weigh in on the economic stimulus ‘cash splash’, Senator Steve Fielding’s learning disability and the idea of a boycott on Israel.
podcast Canberra Calling: The Steve Fielding podcast, spelt P.O.D.K.A.S.T
Crikey’s Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane and editor Jonathan Green look back at the week’s events in the nation’s capital, their sights firmly set on Senator Steve Fielding and his learning disability.
