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This is an election where slogans are really wearing thin. Abbott today tried to start talk about Labor’s “Great Big New Filter”, after wh...

Everyone already knows that the judgement of former Labor leader Mark Latham isn't super flash (though it's better than that of the ...

If anyone reading this happens to be teaching creative writing or running workshops or whatever, here's an article you might find useful...

As readers of this blog may have noticed, I'm quite a fan of Crikey reporter Bernard Keane and am enjoying his weekday reports in Crikey...

From the increasingly indispensable Grog's Gamut : At the Liberal Party campaign launch, the big policy announcement was the plan to i...

The ABC's Annabel Crabb published a long, informative, entertaining piece at The Drum the other day, characteristically witty and meaty...

'Thrusting', eh? I notice Abbott's world view as reflected by his vocabulary hasn't significantly changed in 30 years. Here ...

The ever-quotable Bernard Keane in this morning's Crikey Campaign Special: Despite Kevin Rudd’s – by his recent standards – extravagan...

Bernard Keane in today's Crikey Campaign bulletin: Only in this bizarrely [sic] – and bizarrely uninteresting – campaign can Labor’s d...

is, they say, Ivan 'Rocket Man' Vasiliev, age 21. He's currently dancing in London with the Bolshoi and I first heard his na...

Back in 1994 I was writing a TV column for Eureka Street . Here's what I said about Laurie Oakes, whose weekly political interviews were...

One particularly detestable bit of all-purpose politics-and-public-service jargon is getting a good workout during this limp election campai...

Mungo McCallum on the "debate" in today's Crikey is in form as fine as it ever was back in the day, when he was writing for th...

Bernard Keane, in this morning's Election Special from Crikey, on last night's 'debate': The only momentary interest came r...

One of the many lovely things about reading fiction for a living is that it tends to make you an armchair (time-)traveller. Just in the last...

Here's some folk wisdom garnered over a lifetime of dealing with my father (a dear man in many ways, but pure Id, and born without even ...

Can there be any profession apart from popular music in which the gap between the good and the bad is as wide as it is in journalism? In Aus...