There’s a very special class of Australian who also happens to belong to the worst culture on earth: police culture, writes ,b>Chris Graham.
YouTube
Muslim cleric the YouTube hit of … 2003
The sudden flurry over some six-year-old video recordings must have left Abu Hamza more than a little bemused, writes Jonathan Green.
Media briefs and TV ratings: DWTS moves to Sunday, Satin returns!
Will Fairfax staff care? … Entertainment stocks devalued by digital age … Satin returns! … Monetising YouTube … Olympian couch potatos’ viewing habits … Generational change at The Post
Like the Liberal party, the Nine Network is in a quicksand
Like the Liberal party, the Nine Network is in a quicksand – of old ideas and rotting arrogance. On the same night the public kicked out the Liberals it also punted Nine. On Saturday night Nine was Channel Fourth – beaten not only by the ABC and Seven election coverages but by a geriatric Darth Vader on Ten.
Crikey Election Awards: the winners
And with almost no further ado, we turn to the winners of Crikey’s Election Awards. Unlike The Age, we have made a decision…
Your final Campaign Lite
The beagle decides … dogged by controversy … Lest We Forget … Tactical voting? … Casey Bennetto on this “Saturday Night” … Election primer for Potter fans.
Razer: Election 2.0? Ctrl+alt+del
Weeks ago in a grandiose humour, some foolish bint predicted that Election 07 would be shaped by the evolved hand of the digital native. That was me. Sorry. I was wrong. Wrong like Wikipedia, writes Helen Razer.
Crikey Election Awards: Vote now!
Now’s your last chance to vote in the Crikey Election Awards.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Borders does not control Gloria Jeans marketing … the electoral act in the new millennium … David Williamson … climate change, Playboy and Christian ethics … last minute voting …
Crikey crib sheets: The hot ads of the campaign
With YouTube enabling an everyman and his dog approach to election advertising, there’s been an embarrassment of riches. The risk, of course, is that nothing gets heard above the din. So which ads have cut through the cacophany (for the right or wrong reasons)? Crikey has the round-up.
Rudd a Pooh puncher: video
At this juncture, we would like to remind Crikey readers that nominations are due this Thursday for our inaugural No Party Preferred Election Awards. Vote for your favourite moments in the following categories…
Alas, the “narrowing” will be too late for Howard
This poll-mix, which includes the just-released Morgan, is fortnightly, and stretches back to the last weeks of Kim Beazley’s leadership, writes Peter Brent.
Bahnisch: The boy from Nambour turns on the charm
Even if Kevin Rudd wasn’t quite from a town called Hope, yesterday’s ALP campaign launch was all a tad Clintonesque, as was the contrast with the Coalition launch on Monday, writes Mark Bahnisch.
Errington: Both sides dragging the chain on the internet
This was supposed to be the internet election. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell Australia’s major political parties. writes Wayyne Errington.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
Monkey business and the PM … Flint on the unions … interest rates and weasel words … Howard’s batting average … the Mark Vaile/Poochie parallel …
Tips and rumours
Wollondilly on 24 March, they came by car and minivan. People standing outside the booth saw them arrive … and saw them depart. Goodfellas voting again and again. At all the booths. In other people’s names. With no fear and no one to stop them. The Sussex Street mob reckon they won four seats this […]
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Less than two weeks to go, one campaign already launched (so soon!) … things are hotting up in the long, long run to Election 2007. Now more than ever, you need the array of special features to be found on the election pages at www.crikey.com.au. To be precise: Crikey’s election tracker: follow B1 and B2 every […]
The Crikey Election Awards: We need your votes
Before we forget it all in the drunken haze of Election Night 2007, Crikey is today announcing its election awards. And the categories are…
Campaign Lite: latest videos
Kevin 007 … Pretty fly for an old rich white guy …
When is a news site not a news site?
When is a news site not a news site, and when is it propaganda? In these days of blurry lines, journalists need to be careful, writes Margaret Simons.
Stephen Mayne explains his crazy Costello campaign
Anyone for a spot of bank bashing? That’s what I’ll be doing for the next 24 days having yesterday successfully nominated to be the first independent candidate Peter Costello has faced in the seat of Higgins for many years, writes Stephen Mayne.
2007: The (second) last TV election
The next time someone says we’re experiencing Australia’s “first Internet election” or our “first YouTube election”, slap them. Slap them very hard, writes Stilgherrian.
Family farce: the strange thoughts of Andrew Quah
If you want to become a Family First candidate, it all starts online, where you can email through your CV to the party, writes Jane Nethercote.
Kevin07 ups the ante in election 2.0
A week, as we’re dependably notified, is a long time in campaign politics. In the realm of Election 2.0, a week is at least as long again, writes Helen Razer.
