It’s been an awful election for Labor in the Senate. The ALP needed to get at least 33 seats – preferably 34 – to help them steer their legislation through the Senate. They didn’t. South Australia and the West denied them, writes Christian Kerr.
This means that
The Crikey Election Drinking Game
Unlike politicians with their policy pitches, Crikey is upfront. Drinking games have one purpose. To get drunk. Quickly. To get drunk, laugh and fall down. The Crikey Election Night drinking game has been designed with that in mind, writes Christian Kerr.
Same old same old: Morgan
The weekend before the party launches Coalition primary support was unchanged on 39% while Labor’s was up three points to 48, according to the latest face to face Morgan Poll, writes Christian Kerr.
Bursting the Wentworth soap bubble
The dramas in Wentworth are a distraction from the central fact: Malcolm Turnbull is an outstanding candidate with outstanding potential, writes Christian Kerr.
Tips and rumours
So the staff at the Mersey General Hospital will not go on AWAs … So, how popular are these thing in the public service generally? Well, trolling through annual reports does unearth some gems. For example, Defence, the largest of the departments has exactly 28 (apart from their senior executives that is). If you want […]
Brent: Greens suffering under Rudd revival
Labor’s improvement in the polls hasn’t all come from the Coalition — much of Rudd’s jump has come from the Greens. Their support has almost halved since the days of Beazley, writes Peter Brent.
The West takes the public for fools over public interest
The West Australian got fundamental facts wrong in a story about the hospital system and refused to correct. Their defence? You guessed it – writing stories about inadequate health services is in the “public interest” and this means that the errors “were immaterial to the issue”, writes Margaret Simons.
RBA: Big banks set to cash in on credit squeeze
The Reserve Bank has endorsed the idea that our big banks will be the winners from the recent instability in credit markets.
Your Crikey cut out ‘n’ keep guide to election dates
It wasn’t called at the end of APEC and it wasn’t called last weekend. So when’s the Prime Minister going to call on the Governor-General and ask him to dissolve parliament and issue the writs for a poll?
Trujillo’s oversized, under-linked remuneration package
The Smage today launched a blistering attack on Sol Trujillo’s remuneration structure, at one stage quoting a fund manager who labelled Trujillo’s package “a complete joke”, writes Adam Schwab.
Interest rate rises? CDEP workers face ruin
The Reserve Bank’s interest rate announcement was not just widely predicted, it was factored into the share market weeks ago. The media will no doubt rake the coals of families doing it tough with—what?—the ninth interest rate hike in a row. But you can bet no journalist—especially those of the Canberra press gallery—will take time out to talk to anyone in the Northern Territory who works for a Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) wage.
ALP lead steady despite Haneef: Morgan
The numbers are in, but what do they tell us about today and the future? Well, the government’s primary votes support remains unchanged on 40.5%, six and a half points behind the ALP (47%, down 0.5%), according to the latest face-to-face Morgan polling.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
