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Tips and rumours
October 6, 2017
Parliamentarian's book choices revealed ... Shorten joins the commercial radio cringe festival ... Scott Ryan is back ...
The Labor Party has failed to differentiate itself on a dispiriting number of issues
October 6, 2017
Crikey readers on the ALP and Theresa May.
Our politicians and media are in denial about the cause of terrorism
June 6, 2017 21
Our media never stops to ask how all of this terrorism started in the first place. The overwhelming evidence is clear: the invasion of Iraq in 2003, writes former head of Prime Minister and Cabinet John Menadue.
LEAKED: Qantas responds to Margaret Court’s gay marriage-related boycott
May 26, 2017 16
Qantas is prepared to go to great lengths to appease Court.
Liberals in crisis — from ascendancy to chaos in four years
March 13, 2017 33
In 2013, the Liberal Party dominated Australian politics. Now it is in disarray, riven by factions, struggling to fend off a resurgent Labor, and vexed by One Nation. Bernard Keane and Josh Taylor examine where it went wrong.
So you wanna be a ministerial staffer …
May 1, 2015 2
Former federal Labor staffer Aaron Hill peeks behind the bureaucratic curtain to reveal just what ministerial staff actually do all day.
This is the test you should be worried about for sex-selective abortion
May 1, 2015 8
John Madigan's private member's bill to limit sex-selective abortion is woefully out of date, writes Caroline de Costa, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at James Cook University College of Medicine.
Anti-abortion street harassment is not peaceful protest
March 13, 2014 16
A women's health clinic is taking Melbourne City Council to court to force it to protect the health and wellbeing of patients and staff. Maurice Blackburn associate Lizzie O'Shea says the anti-abortion activists outside the clinic are not exercising their rights to free assembly, they are threatening the health of vulnerable women.
Population v environment: the problems with a Big Australia
April 19, 2013 16
Australia's population growth is exacerbating problems with traffic congestion, water, waste disposal, queues for healthcare and easy access to fresh food, argues academic Jonathan Sobels.
Land use and CSG: what rights do property owners have?
February 20, 2012 1
Coal seam gas activities in Queensland and NSW have created scenes of confusion, conflict, and sometimes, chaos and at the heart of much of this conflict has been land. So what rights do property owners actually have? asks FAQ Research's Dr Tina Hunter .
Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, the true story
August 27, 2009 37
The dreadful truth of that night is well-known among Kennedy staffers and his surviving family, writes Bob Ellis. Teddy was nowhere near the car when the accident occurred.
Take the prostitutes out of my Cracker, please
August 19, 2009 4
A bunch of wiley po-stitutes are outwitting a reputable and large media company and putting the company in breach of the law, writes a concerned Cracker reader.
And the Wankley goes to … The Daily Tele’s gore porn.
April 3, 2009
The Daily Tele takes the beat-up to a whole new gory level.
The Liberals call in the doctor
November 29, 2007 6
Former Labor Party member and union boss Brendan Nelson has been elected Liberal Party leader this afternoon in Canberra, 45 votes to 42. Western Australian Julie Bishop has been elected as his deput, writes Christian Kerr.
Crikey’s Spring Carnival form guide: Turnbull Stakes day
October 5, 2007
After the relative certainty of Geelong’s triumph last weekend, it’s reassuring to know that those of us addicted to the culture of prediction are about to be lurched back into some serious head scratching, thanks to Melbourne’s Spring Racing Carnival.
Did Gunns get what it wanted, or deserved?
October 4, 2007 2
Now that the Federal Environment Minister has given the pulp mill conditional approval, Gunns must decide if it is going to proceed with the project knowing it will cost them time and money to comply with another 24 guidelines. Is it a deal-breaker, as Gunns has promised?
Where does Janet Albrechtsen’s husband fit in?
September 13, 2007
Andrew Bolt joined Glenn Milne in the Costello camp three months ago, but it was the switch of The Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen last Friday which will go down in history as one of the most impactful columns of all time.
Crikey Bias-o-meter: The newspapers
June 26, 2007 2
The market is too small to support newspapers that don’t play to the centre ground, so the Crikey bias-o-meter has had to be finely calibrated. In a marketplace full of bland centrist publications and carefully mixed stables of commentators, small deviations can look extreme.
Don Burke’s dark side
May 17, 2005
From the archives: while heaving blame at everyone but himself, Burke has revealed a side that audiences might not expect, and producers would prefer buried.