Godwin Grech and the creepy pod people
Guy Rundle has written an excellent piece on the human and political dimensions of Utegate, which I’m reproducing from Crikey, with permission, over the fold. NB: Previous discussion of Utegate at LP can be accessed here.
Utegate open thread
Malcolm Turnbull used the traditional pr vehicle for people in deep trouble – Australian Story – last night to try to put a positive gloss on his response to the revelations about the Gordon Grech email which he’d previously claimed [...]
News Limited's partisan nonsense actually a disaster for the Liberals
Various News Limited scribes on the weekend opined (all speaking in the voice of Tony Abbott’s ventriloquist dummy – it couldn’t be more obvious) that Malcolm Turnbull had set himself the task of tearing Rudd down in order to win. [...]
Rudd and Gillard attack News Limited, Hartigan punches back
Crikey‘s editorial today (reproduced over the fold with permission) picked up on the political significance of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard’s critical remarks about the conduct of News Limited papers in publishing the concocted email at the centre of the [...]
Utegate in LOLcats!
For anyone who hasn’t been quite sure of exactly what went down in Parliament over the last few weeks, check out the fine summary of Bekk’s brilliant LOLcat epic: Utegate as told by LOLcats Below is just one sample image: [...]
Utegate and political legitimacy
As Tobias Ziegler observes at Pure Poison, there’s a certain irony in David Penberthy’s observation at The Punch that “Utegate” has been a diversion from issues far more important to the public and to the future of our Commonwealth. Nevertheless, [...]
"Malcolm Turnbull is the Coalition's Mark Latham"
Quoth Jim Turnour, Labor MP for Leichardt, in Federal Parliament yesterday. As Utegate stumbles to a halt, it’s becoming apparent that the more important questions go to the suitability of Malcolm Turnbull for political leadership. Guy Rundle’s article in Crikey [...]
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