What are the major parties promising in terms of mental health services? Crikey journalist Andrew Crook and the CDP’s Julia Hosking find out.
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PromiseWatch 2013: the NBN and broadband policy
CPD researcher Julia Hosking and Crikey’s Andrew Crook find out where the parties stand on the National Broadband Network.
READ MOREUnions, Labor and Greens embrace web platform with GOP ties
Left-wing political parties and organisations are using LA-based NationBuilder website platforms, but concerns have been raised that the company has a right-wing agenda in the US.
READ MOREPromiseWatch 2013: Henry (remember him?) and tax
Surprisingly for such a flaming hot issue, in recent decades the political struggle over tax appears to have dimmed. Three years after the Henry Review, Crikey senior journalist Andrew Crook and CPD researcher Adrian March find out: where do the parties stand on tax?
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Playing the Lotto when you buy The Herald Sun … when is a Green not a Green? … fact-checking disability facilities …
READ MOREPromiseWatch 2013: Newstart Allowance comparison
Crikey’s PromiseWatch project zeroes in on pledges over the Newstart allowance. Crikey’s Andrew Crook and Centre for Policy Development researcher Julia Hosking investigate the parties’ dole claims.
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Qantas ladies, please defer to a bloke … Crikey’s list of political turncoats … no heteros-xuality please, we’re Green …
READ MOREKim Williams: don’t underestimate how outrageous this is
Crikey readers talk pokies, the principles of the Greens and what’s wrong with the ATO.
READ MORERichard Farmer’s chunky bits
Don’t sneer at Alan Jones — without his long-running campaign against coal seam gas, would the issue have come to the attention of the federal government? Plus other political issues of the day.
READ MOREAlan Jones’ show irrelevant
Crikey readers have their say on Alan Jones, heckling Bob Hawke and privatisation
READ MORERichard Farmer’s chunky bits
The media are looking for “Labor figures”, and they’re not too picky who they get. Plus other political issues of the day.
READ MOREThe Victorian Premier might wish he had some Greens around
Ted Baillieu might now be regretting his decision to preference Labor ahead of the Greens. In Western Australia, the Liberals and Greens have come to terms. Denis Napthine should consider doing the same.
READ MOREEssential: Labor vote collapses, Greens deemed ‘too extreme’
Labor’s primary vote has dropped to just 32%, according to the latest Essential Research poll. Plus, Greens leader Christine Milne has only 20% of voters approval.
READ MOREBoo hoo, the Greens have gotten the better of Labor
The Greens’ split with Labor will prompt the ALP — no doubt soon to be in opposition for a while — to do some serious soul-searching to decide what it stands for.
READ MOREGreens try for rebranding in the face of a falling vote
The Greens are on track to underperform compared with the 2010 election. In which case, getting your competitor to differentiate you isn’t such a bad strategy.
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Changes at the head of the Fin? … no man-ban among the Greens … major parties vie for bachelor’s award …
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Man ban for Greens? … this man has Ian Macdonald by the throat … horse served as beef in Sydney …
READ MOREGas-powered politics: Greens, Katter make case on CSG
The Greens and Bob Katter could capitalise on the campaign against coal seam gas and the mining exploration on farming land ahead of the federal election. Crikey intern Sandi Keane reports.
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Who’s sleeping with his lawyer? … claims party membership details leaked … razor gangs patrolling federal public service …
READ MOREJump on a (properly costed) high-speed train
The latest high-speed rail report from the Greens relies on the same errors as previous efforts. The inconvenient maths of the situation is it’s just too expensive.
READ MORE‘Eat your Greens, Keane’: health experts fight back
Crikey readers weigh in on the big issues of the day.
READ MOREGet Fact: are the Greens ‘backing down’ on private school funding?
An “exclusive” front-page report in The Australian newspaper claimed the Greens will dump their most hostile policies towards private schools. But the truth is somewhat murkier.
READ MOREThe Oz critic, the Greens run and council democracy
There have been some startling developments in The Australian’s chief literary critic Geordie Williamson’s bid for a seat on the Blue Mountains City Council.
READ MOREIs the sex industry getting bang for its buck?
Why did the Australian Sex Party direct crucial preferences to Labor in the Melbourne byelection — when their policies seem more in line with the Greens?
READ MOREPoll Bludger: a case of no Libs, no Greens
Notwithstanding the Greens’ unduly stubborn refusal to concede defeat, it is beyond doubt that Labor is over the line in the Melbourne byelection, writes William Bowe of Crikey blog Poll Bludger.
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