Crazy uncle Tuckey and the Coalition crashThe 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.
Wilson Tuckey
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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.
Grumpy old git gives Turnbull what for
In an email to all Liberal MPs, Wilson Tuckey has described his leader, Malcolm Turnbull, as inexperienced and arrogant.
Guy Rundle: Liberal party ideology lost in the woods
Wow, when it all goes to crap, it all goes to crap, dunnit?
Wilson Tuckey: man of tact and dignity
A look at some of Ironbar’s greatest hits.
Will members of parliament please grow up?
Our parliamentarians only made it one week into a four-weeks-out-of-five extended session before collectively losing the plot yesterday.
Parliamentary sin-bin: who makes the Tuckey hall of fame?
In what’s shaping up as a fascinating race between youth and experience, Peter Dutton and Wilson Tuckey share the lead for the most number of times booted out of the House of Representatives Chamber.
Magazines and TV shows just love a list!
A snapshot of our politicians in the current crop of exciting list journalism.
Time for Turnbull to rescue his party
Malcolm Turnbull needs to give a stirring performance tonight in his Budget Reply.
Wilson Tuckey, 543, defends older MPs
We are urged by anonymous business leaders to replace older and more experienced MPs with those of a younger age. What rot, says Wilson Tuckey, federal member for O’Connor.
Earth Hour parliamentary email ruckus
Your taxpayer dollars — and taxpayer-funded IT system — hard at work.
Question Time: any port in a sh-tstorm!
The following is extract from the Hansard record of Question Time Tuesday 10 March 2009, was obtained by Bernard Keane.
Rundle: What has Black Saturday taught us?
Without surrendering the notion that we can dramatically improve our reaction to fire, a little circumspection about easy answers might be the least we owe to the dead, writes Guy Rundle.
The Special Hair Edition
It’s Movember!
First Dog on the Moon presents the Crikey Politicians Pet Register
Who owns what and whom?
Kevin’s Gate Part One: The Leader muses…
Government insider Walter Slurry has forwarded several extracts from the secret pillow diaries of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. A fascinating insight into the subconscious of power.
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Is that your arse on your head…
New magazines from ACP…
Including The Journal of the Australian Political Wilderness Society and Australian Deadshit.
Senior Liberals now reconciled and relaxed
One suspects that in years to come, Brendan Nelson’s speech in reply to the Prime Minister’s apology to the Stolen Generations will be known chiefly for how it was jeered and rejected. Such an outcome is unfair on him and unfair on the Coalition, writes David MacCormack.
Rudd’s first Question Time: happy as a pig in mud
Kevin Rudd is as happy as a pig in mud. Wayne Swan is as happy as a goldfish in a blender. They’re the conclusions that can be drawn from the first Rudd Government Question Time, writes Christian Kerr
