March, 2012

Did First Dog really have an Angry Anderson Party on his list of those desperate to unite under the banner of freedom? That’s just one of the fascinating questions  to be answered in our new How well d0 you read your Crikey weekly quiz?

Tony Abbott’s proposal to provide taxpayer-funded rebates to subside the cost of nannies made me roll my eyes, but not much more. It’s Tony, after all – I don’t expect any better from him. The string of self-indulgent, self-justifying, sense-of-entitlement utter bullshit articles by female journalists and commentators like Tracy Spicer, on the other hand, [...]

The Washington Post leads its news coverage today with a story that the United States and Australia are planning a major expansion of military ties, including possible drone flights from a coral atoll in the Indian Ocean and increased U.S. naval access to Australian ports. The moves, which are under discussion but have drawn strong interest from [...]

Earlier this month it was announced that Irish voters would be heading to the polls to vote on the new European fiscal compact. While this was a predicted outcome as Ireland’s constitutional obligations require a referendum, the media coverage of the referendum took a tone that sounded a bit like here we go again. One [...]

The collective wisdom of entrants in our Crikey Queensland election contest is that these are the chances of victory in each seat: SEAT                        ALP    LNP   OTHER Albert                         31%      67%     1% Algester                       84%     15%     1% Ashgrove                     40%     60%     0% Aspley                          7%      92%     1% BarronRiver                 7%     89%     4% Beaudesert                    0%     48%     [...]

At the time of writing, police and military patrols are still searching for the gunman who shot dead three students and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse, after having earlier killed three paratroopers and seriously injured another. The paratroopers were all of North African or Caribbean descent. The school, too, has North African [...]

Crikey is offering two ways to test your political skills with Queensland election contests. For the really keen among you there is the long test – predict the result in every one of the 89 seats. And the less keen can try our short version  where all that’s required is nominating the total number of [...]