The full extent of Western Australia’s gas crisis is starting to emerge with all sorts of tales of woe ranging from production cut backs at huge resource projects to Perth hotels not being able to provide clean sheets, writes Stephen Mayne.
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The problem with petrol politics is that the numbers involved are simply enormous. Possum Comitatus looks at FuelWatch and does the number crunching for you.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government plus the daily reality check and the pick of other people’s political coverage. Richard Farmer writes.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
It’s early days, but this ad from the weekend papers will probably rate as the week’s wildest act of unfettered optimisim.
Troy Buswell the victim of a quokka smear
Troy Buswell’s quokka denial is a story about the slide in standards of journalism — and how ridiculous conjecture will now stick to him, writes Possum Comitatus.
Crikey Says: Crikey says
The state of Australia’s States. What a lark, eh?
Morning Market Report
The highs and lows of today’s stockmarket activity.
The government denial of the Sunday Times raid: Why we couldn’t swallow it
Last week 16 police officers raided The Sunday Times’ newsroom and the broad-daylight raid, prompted howls of outrage that have left the various government departments involved quaking in their boots, writes Kayt Davies.
Staffers must be better protected from chair-sniffing MPs
Now that the dust has settled and Troy Buswell has clung onto his leadership, we can consider some of the less obvious aspects of his case, writes Bernard Keane.
Tips and rumours
Is The West Australian going to put new Opposition Leader in WA, Troy Buswell out of his misery? Troy Buswell was recently elected Liberal Leader despite revelations that he got drunk at Parliament and undid the bra of an unwilling female Labor staffer. Apparently this staffer is yet to return to work after the incident. […]
