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Category Archives: Guy Rundle

Hey, you can be xenophobic about people, but not precious foreign money!

Sinclair Davidson in The Australian laments the Greens’ oppressive money “xenophobia” (demanding that the Australian taxpayer get a bigger slice of the multinationals’ profits on our irreplaceable natural resources): Brown’s economic xenophobia will cost us dearly FOR a man who so warmly embraces every foreigner seeking asylum in Australia, Bob Brown is strangely xenophobic when [...]

A question of etiquette

I’ve just read that Andrew Bolt (and many of his commenters, by the looks of it) are unhappy with how David Marr treated him on Insiders this morning (if you didn’t see the show, you need to watch this segment to see what he’s unhappy about). Now I need to ask a question about etiquette. [...]

Are we all mental health professionals now?

Commentary on the psychological make-up of politicians is nothing new, but there’s been a fresh round of it in the past week. It was kicked off by Brendan Nelson, who said this to Peter Hartcher about the man who replaced Nelson as leader of the opposition: Yet the former medical practitioner feels the need to [...]

What next – “golliwog”?

We’ve had Piers’ ruminations on “The Dark Continent”, and Andy using the word “culled” to describe the effect of abortions on people in the third world (as if they were animals), and then here at Crikey itself I was more than a little surprised to read the concluding sentence (and the accompanying headline) in Guy [...]