For the times when saying sorry just isn’t enough
Wilson Tuckey
Downer: The delight I feel watching Rudd mess it up
Alexander Downer is loving the schadenfreude of seeing Kevin Rudd battle Indonesia over asylum seekers. He should have learnt from Tampa that negotiating with Indonesia on refugees is never a good idea.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Asylum seekers, Wilson Tuckey and gobbledygook
Crikey readers weigh in on the hysteria over asylum seekers, the prospect of Tamil Tigers being in Australia and climate currency leakage.
Outwit outplay outlast: How Rudd emerges as PM Survivor
Wilson Tuckey’s comments that some asylum seekers may be terrorists simply echoes the refugee/terrorist link that John Howard always pushed. Luckily Kevin Rudd knew to call that bluff, even as the media attempts to airbrush our political history.
What is the fuss over former LTTE members in Australia?
Memo to Wilson Tuckey: There are already former members of the Tamil Tigers living in Australia — mostly professional people, raising successful children, writes Bruce Haigh.
Tuckey and the Tamil terrorists
Wilson Tuckey wasn’t over-stepping the mark to suggest that, if a large number of Tamils seek to enter Australia after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, their ranks may contain former Tamil Tigers, says Bernard Keane. But of course, he had to take it that one step further…
Not even fear mongering can save the Opposition
Many in the Opposition are pushing an anti-ETS line, but it’s hard to run a scare campaign when you’re not in power. A time will come when voters don’t view Kevin Rudd as Father Christmas, but not for awhile, writes Peter Brent.
A new Liberal climate position: the Minchin line
Climate change is being used by the Government to wedge the Opposition mercilessly, in far more savage a fashion than John Howard ever managed to do to Labor on refugees or national security.
Coorey: Turnbull can’t shift the dead weight of Iron Bar
Malcolm Turnbull is correct that his party needs to do something on climate change, says Phillip Coorey, but the “do-nothing” climate skeptics are stuck firmly to the bottom of his shoe.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, Julia
Education Minister Julia Gillard was under fire for overspending A$1.5 billion in the school buildings project and she came out guns blazing in parliament. For once, the voice of reason was Wilson Tuckey.
Gorgon: the little gas project that could
The Gorgon Gas project is the new golden child of the Rudd government, expected to create jobs, help Australia-China relations and further destroy the Opposition’s leadership, writes Annabel Crabb.
The weather gets the better of desultory climate gabfest
The best take on the whole Frontier Economics carbon plan business came from — get this — Wilson Tuckey at the doors this morning.
The True Truth about the Frontier Economics Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
Including the Haunted Croquembouche
Robb’s popularity rises
The man with charisma to burn, Andrew Robb, moves up 22 spots this week, while his troubled leader Malcolm Turnbull keeps himself in the news.
The Coalition’s alternative emissions trading scheme is dead.
Long live the Coalition’s alternative emissions trading scheme!
Tips and rumours: A toast to Tuckey
Which Liberal Senator was overheard calling Wilson Tuckey “a certifiable lunatic” while enjoying a tipple recently? Is economics reporter Stephen Long going to keep his pants on? Tipsters tell all.
Crossing the Floor with Bernard Keane: The rise of the politician writer
Bernard Keane eyes the sudden outbreak of political writing: Wilson Tuckey’s email rant, Tony “rent-a-quote” Abbott’s new book and Rudd’s 6000 words of what the man himself calls “his mediocre prose”.
Crazy uncle Tuckey and the Coalition crash
The Coalition are tearing each other apart, with Joe Hockey likening Wilson Tuckey to the “the crazy uncle at a family wedding” and Warren Truss turning on Turnbull, as the ETS divides the party room.
The Opposition’s climate change brain explosion
Yesterday perfectly captured Malcolm Turnbull’s climate change problem. It’s hard to tell who’s his biggest enemy: Kevin Rudd or the self-serving conservatives in his own party.
For Wilson Tuckey’s Turnbull-bashing email, click here.
Tuckey and co: nine MPs Malcolm Turnbull should remainder
Presenting Crikey’s authoritative guide to conservative dead wood. Compiled by Bernard Keane.
Crikey Says: Malcolm and the sceptics
It’s hard not to feel sympathy for Malcolm Turnbull, a man who by any estimation genuinely believes climate change is a worrying issue and wants to address it, despite his party.
The Wilson Tuckey email
Liberal backbencher Wilson Tuckey has blasted Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull’s “arrogance” and “inexperience” on ETS. Here Crikey republishes that email, in full and unedited.
