Meaty chunks of political news and commentary from former political operative and Canberra insider Richard Farmer.
For Kim Beazley all this speculation about US spy drones and Australian islands must be manna from heaven.
So the Australian Defence Force is concerned about "the increasingly excessive use of alcohol during Anzac Day commemorations nowadays".
Former Premier Peter Beattie wants Julia Gillard to buy a house in Queensland. But what if Queenslanders actually don’t want her?
To say anything other than we can’t win would have left Anna Bligh looking quite ridiculous.
Linking the super change with the minerals resource rent tax as the legislation wound its way through the parliament was too clever by half.
I’m really getting to like this Peter Slipper.
The can-do Prime Minister Julia Gillard appears happy enough to have got her mining tax legislation through the Parliament but it by no means marks the end of the problems involved in actually getting the planned for money.
When politicians are reduced to appealing to the electorate for a sympathy vote to stop the other lot winning by too much then desperation has well and truly set in.
The Times Higher Education has just released its assessment of the reputation of the world's universities and three Australian institutions have made the top 50.
Crikey is offering two ways to test your political skills with Queensland election contests.
