The Victorian Managed Insurance Authority will conduct an internal probe into disturbing allegations of bullying raised by Crikey last week, after a 3pm all-staff crisis meeting was called yesterday to respond to the claims.
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Vic Labor confronts the post-Brumby
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The Victorian Labor Party is preparing for a smooth and uncontroversial leadership transition, with the party’s Socialist Left faction now in a commanding position to install health minister Daniel Andrews after it lost just one MP on Saturday night.
GP revenue slump contradicts crowd numbers
As plummeting sales revenue for the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix sends the event further into the major events mire, the race’s official attendance, which makes up the vast proportion of the revenue figure, has grown, according to the event’s organisers.
Getting Tiger Woods here again defies common sense
To go cap in hand and beg Tiger Woods’ management company for a second visit is a tawdry and faintly obscene move by the Victorian government, writes Charles Happell.
Is the agreement to save the Snowy now dead?
NSW’s long history of bloody-mindedness over the Snowy River looks set to wreck the intern-governmental agreement to save the river, with the NSW government revealing it will unilaterally alter the Snowy Hydro Corporation’s Snowy water licence.
A very Crikey Christmas Carolling
Let’s all raise our candles to sing along to our Crikey Christmas carols, including the classic hits ‘Dickheads We Have Heard On Air’ and ‘Oink To The World’, penned by Mel Campbell and Daniel Zugna.
Holding v Homebirthers: is risk-taking a gender issue?
Water Minister Tim Holding attempts a bushwalk in extreme conditions and he’s seen as a hero. But when women attempt to give birth at home, they’re regarded as ‘wingnuts’ and reckless. Why?
“I thought about pizza”: a poem by Tim Holding, on the occasion of his rescue
On Feathertop Mountain — to be sung as a Tom Waits dirge.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Tim Holding hikes his way up the list
Tim Holding and John Della Bosca dominate this week’s top 20. Surprised? Patrick Baume crunches the numbers.
Lessons in History: Disappearing politicians
Those holding civic office have had a distinct tendency to wander off into parts unknown. Does power drive a man (or woman) into the yonder? History writer Mike Stutchbery investigates.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Della Bosca sexes up NSW politics
Crikey readers weigh in on John Della Bosca’s sex scandal and messy NSW politics, Tim Holding’s Monty Pythoneseque ordeal and Dr Brendan Nelson’s diagnosis.
Who found Tim Holden? Sorry, Holding
Who found Victoria’s missing Water Minister? Was it the Nine Network? Was it Channel Seven? Was it emergency services? Crikey intern James Pattison investigates.
Crikey Clarifier: How to survive on a freezing mountaintop
How did Victoria’s Water and Tourism Minister Tim Holding survive the freezing alpine conditions after he went missing? Ben Sandilands, who has also “done” Mt Feathertop, explains.
Front page story: a tale of two ministers (UPDATE: Tim Holding found)
This morning, ministers are the talk of the town and the local papers. In Melbourne, it’s all about a missing one, Water Minister Tim Holding — now found — , whereas in Sydney it’s the scandal-embroiled Della Bosca.
Tips and rumours
A mate is a Flight Officer with Air New Zealand, he was operating their service HKG-LHR the same day as the British Airways crash and was just a bit behind BAW37, he says it was the coldest he’s seen up high with the OAT at -57. Their fuel temp got to -43, well below the […]
