As Victoria’s bushfires continue and the remains of destroyed towns are revealed, local media coverage remains in overdrive, while the world watches.
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Blazes continue while policy comes under heat: a Crikey media wrap
As the blazes in Victoria continue, the analyisis has started to kick in, with our bushfire policy coming under some heat from around the world. We take a look at what the press is saying.
Re-evaluating fire safety individualism
Bushfire survival should not be an individual responsibility. It should be a community concern, writes Lionel Elmore.
Victoria’s bushfires: a Crikey media wrap
Bushfire coverage from online and around the world.
Victorians go to the polls. Not.
Victoria’s 79 municipalities, with about 3.5 million voters, will all hold elections tomorrow, in an unprecedented state-wide operation, but will ballots be fair and secret? asks Charles Richardson.
Prosecutors have never had it so good
The legal system now in Victoria and in every other state of Australia is heavily weighted in favour of prosecutors, writes Greg Barns.
Decriminalising abortion — what now for the other states?
What are the implications for other states, now that abortion has been decriminalised in Victoria, asks Caroline DeCosta.
Legal complexities of the Catholic abortion stance
The Catholic Church is sanctioning medical professionals clearly breaching their duty of care to a patient and possibly exposing them to manslaughter charges because of their deliberate inaction, writes Greg Barns.
Wheels come off the Phillip Island motorcycle GP
The motorcycle grand prix at the world famous Phillip Island circuit is just a month away, yet it has no major sponsor, writes Our man in the pit lane at Phillip Island.
Vic Libs release a fragrant load of dirty laundry
The Victorian Liberal Party this week released a radical discussion paper on internal reform, writes Charles Richardson.
They don’t make Liberals like Lindsay Thompson any more
Vale former Victorian premier Lindsay Thompson, a Liberal of the party’s golden age, writes Charles Richardson.
Does the media distort health policy?
The media has much to answer for in trivialising issues concerning the health system, writes Andrew Podger and Professor Stephen Leeder.
How are state governments balancing the books?
Has anyone yet heard from a single Australian government about the effect of the global credit crunch on borrowing costs and revenue? asks Stephen Mayne. Let’s take a look at Victoria.
Chick magnets, demons and Foghorn Leghorn: Gippsland heats up
The Meet the Candidates forum was recently held in Bairnsdale as one of the traditional preliminary bouts before the main stoush for the Gippsland by election on June 26, writes a Gippsland insider.
Civil litigation goes a fee too far
Victorian Attorney-General Rob Hulls has lifted the lid on the scandal that is civil litigation, writes Greg Barns.
Tips and rumours
Word has it that the newly created Victorian Government Department of Transport will be merging with VicRoads in the near future
Worried that the Daily Telegraph poll will conclude the 2020 Creative Summiteers are all “out of touch” with the mainstream, they are all now busily emailing each other and their friends urging them to vote […]
Brumby’s unprecedented $2.7 billion wipe out
Never before has a government decision wiped out $2.7 billion of sharemarket value, writes Stephen Mayne.
Abjorensen: Has the Liberal brand become political poison?
Yet another bad week looms for the Liberals. Tomorrow’s Queensland showdown is certain to take whatever little gloss there is from the announcement of the new Federal frontbench, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Rundle: Swing seats and social change
Bennelong we’ve heard far too much about and Eden-Monarites are so used to being electoral guinea-pigs they all speak in 15 second sound-bites. What about the others? asks Guy Rundle.
A curious set of Senate odds
The betting markets continue to move in Labor’s favor, and Andrew Leigh continues to tell us that they’re the most accurate predictor of results. But unnoticed by the media, one bookmaker has introduced an interesting new variant on election betting. Charles Richardson investigates.
The 39 (marginal) steps – to government
The Liberal Party has doubled the number of seats it is treating as marginal in the face of Labor’s consistent poll leads, according to the Australian. There’s Wentworth. What our the other 39 steps to government?
Canberra vs The States, Part XVI
There’s nothing new about John Howard’s centralism. Like most
federal politicians, fighting the states comes naturally to him. But the most recent twist - trying to sell the idea that the states are to blame for upward pressure on interest rates - still comes as something of a
surprise, writes Charles Richardson.
Typical. Liberals wimp the by-election challenge
Victoria’s Liberal Party won’t field candidates in the by-elections for Williamstown and Albert Park, the seats vacated by former premier and deputy premier Steve Bracks and John Thwaites. Typical!
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 27 July, 2007
First Essendon veteran Kevin Sheedy, now this. Steve Bracks, gorn!
