MPs behaving badly: there is a pattern here

Most MPs manage to prevent their public profile from going to their heads. But a lot don’t, and they make other people’s lives hell, writes Bernard Keane.

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Market's wake-up call must see Fairfax change gears

The market is trashing Fairfax. Its board must consder the needs of stakeholders, writes Robert Gottliebsen.

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G'day I'm David Hicks, you might remember me ...

David Hicks features in a mailout to GetUp members.

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White trash -- and proud of it!

Bob Gosford muses on the "white trash" working in Aboriginal communities.

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Nine searches for a new Sydney News boss

Nine boss David Gyngell is searching for a new News Director for the ailing Sydney 6pm news, writes Glenn Dyer.

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Media briefs: Fairfax digital propagating p-rn... German robots sell anything...

Fairfax digital propagating p-rn... Ziff Davis to close PCMag print... German dinosaur robots can sell anything...

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ABARE figures show hints of trouble in resources

We've had the first hint of an expected fall in resource investment, writes Glenn Dyer.

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Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups

ABC Learning and childcare ... Indigenous Australians ... piracy ... The Howard Years ... car sales ...

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Crikey says

It’s actually up to us consumers to realise Australia’s economic fate is in our hands, and act accordingly.

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Politics, The Universe, Etc

Maternity health reform has harmed women (but not obstetricians): 19/11/2008 | 17
Denying personal change for climate change: 19/11/2008 | 3
Real economy 2: Truth is we're treading water: 18/11/2008 | 6
ABC Learning will come back to haunt the Opposition: 18/11/2008 | 2
We need a new world health order, post-G20: 17/11/2008 | 2
NT classrooms limit indigenous languages to 1 hour a day: 14/11/2008 | 19
Beyond Ken Henry: a guide to (other) department secretaries: 14/11/2008 | 6
First Dog on the Moon: 14/11/2008 | 3
Prince Charles: A life in video: 14/11/2008 | 1
SA MP can't rule out the existence of aliens in the Simpson Desert: 14/11/2008 | 1
Ken Henry a welcome addition to the public tax debate: 13/11/2008 | 11
Introducing the Designer Vagina: protests begin: 13/11/2008 | 10
Bob Brown, G20, the Oz and Australia's right to know: 13/11/2008 | 28
O'Farrell: passive aggressive doesn't work in politics: 13/11/2008 | 6
Battle of the bulging egos: Mal v. Kev: 12/11/2008 | 31
Walter Slurry confesses -- "I leaked the G20 story": 12/11/2008 | 8
Fool levy or fuel surcharge? Cheap oil hurts airline credibility: 12/11/2008 | 0
Liberal Students get decisive on student unionism: 11/11/2008 | 2

Media/Arts/Sport

Baz's Australia scores priceless free publicity from drooling media: 19/11/2008 | 6
Media briefs: Over worked Fairfax subs... Mapping the media meltdown...: 19/11/2008 | 0
Murdoch, self pity and the cruel future of journalism: 18/11/2008 | 5
Media briefs: Obama vs FDR... Polikovskaya trial open to public: 18/11/2008 | 0
Churnalism -- and domestic violence -- alive and well. Shock.: 17/11/2008 | 3
Media briefs: Rupert says one thing... channel seven's family time s-xpo ad...: 17/11/2008 | 1
The Oz is ducking G20 phone call story: 14/11/2008 | 7
And the Wankley goes to... the Herald Sun and NineMSN: 14/11/2008 | 2
Media briefs: Ethically debatable photo wins prize... 3 launches facebook phone: 14/11/2008 | 1
Recession proof Andre Rieu: 13/11/2008 | 4
Media briefs: Budgies buying shares... Aussie films are killing us...: 13/11/2008 | 2

Business

Bickering over the cost of climate change: 19/11/2008 | 1
Selling the effects of short selling short: 19/11/2008 | 2
Falling consumer prices flag further economic turmoil: 19/11/2008 | 1
RBA's new board game: let the market make the cut: 18/11/2008 | 0
US, Japan, New Zealand et al playing follow the leader into recession: 18/11/2008 | 0
Real economy part 1: The big picture: 17/11/2008 | 9
Carr: Got a safe job? 2009 could be party time: 17/11/2008 | 4
Retail sales flat as consumers curtail non-essential spending: 17/11/2008 | 0
OECD, IMF in agreement as global slowdown starts to bite: 14/11/2008 | 0
Why the credit crisis could be the dawn of the Green New Deal: 13/11/2008 | 0
Gruen: Tax reform we can believe in? Count me in: 13/11/2008 | 2

POLITICS

MPs behaving badly

THE FAIRFAX FIASCO: Fairfax must change gears
EMISSIONS TRADING: Bickering over the cost of climate change
TROUBLE AT QANTAS: Dreamliner screws Qantas
WANKLEY AWARDS: The Herald Sun and NineMSN
NT INTERVENTION: Dodson on the intervention
STATE OF THE PLANET: Global warming has its perks
STUFF WE LIKE: Cracklins with beer

The Howard mob tortured children, illegally trafficked human beings to their deaths, forged documents to do it, started illegal wars, allowed Australian citizens to be tortured and rendered by the US and so on and NOT ONE OF THEM EVER LOST THEIR JOBS. Now start getting over this mind numbingly trivial crap that is being passed off as bad behaviour.
Marilyn on MPs behaving badly: there is a pattern here (2 comments)

It seems the choice is - receive care from different people thoughout your pregnancy and the postnatal period, which we all know is not best practice, and birth in the birth centre, or receive care from one midwife who is known and trusted, but you aren't allowed to choose where you want to birth.
Kim Johnstone on Maternity health reform has harmed women (but not obstetricians) (13 comments)

Most of us have been conned by a system which can be read like a book by the advantaged. The less educated and younger citizens are sure they can hear "who's your daddy!" from over their shoulder. Sad really. Lucky I changed everything to cash ages ago.
ScottyMac on Real economy 2: Truth is we're treading water (3 comments)

20 Nov 2008

Classroom English will be the death of Aboriginal languages

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Garrett's National Academy of Music line doesn't sound right

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Budget night: a triumph of rite over truth

9/05/2007 12:00:00 AM

Guy Rundle writes:

So it is that every year, our shaman gather in Canberra. Like priests before a ritual they are sealed off from the profane world in a special retreat (‘the lock-up’) and bonded together in a sacred pact, which sets them off as a distinct group against the rest of their people.

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