Was the PM coached on how to voice her response?
It wasn’t Julia Gillard’s finest hour, but let’s look more seriously at her performance
Cutandpaste
A nice-looking dump in an ocean like this?
HOW the theory of the Pacific’s plastic heart ended up holding just a little too much water.
Unprecedented use of unprecedented
THIS is the worst misuse of a word in recorded history or at least since the last time it happened.
Old Marxists never die
Another RSPT is buried in the Henry report, the Rich Supermodels Profit Tax.
The only Aussie to enjoy a thrash by Poms
AND who also sees the silver lining in the storm clouds drenching Queensland.
Green is the colour of untainted money
POLITICAL donations are always questionable, except when they come to your party.
TV shock! Benaud utters the D-word
Putting water behind walls may have been acceptable in your day, Richie, but this is 2011
This column will be cremated and returned
(I TOLD you not to let that Pommy bastard write the headline — Ed)
Reporter cables despatch from Mittagong
WAS David Marr the inspiration for William Boot in Evelyn Waugh’s famous novel?
2010 was the year of living with disappointment
Contributors to ABC online’s The Drum Unleashed shared their hopes on January 1, 2010
The Herald’s editorial writer deconstructs Christmas
Let us pay homage to the blessed Julian Assange and his prophet Foucault
Rudd’s battle, as told to Peter Hartcher
(Note to subs — first draft only. Please update when Dorling sends WikiLeaks cables. P.H.)
The scary thing is The Age loves the NBN
STEPHEN Conroy gets cold feet as the Yarra anarcho-syndicalist collective gives the thumbs-up.
Broadband will abolish traffic jams
Stephen Conroy takes the theory of ‘virtual traffic’ and transforms it for the digital age.
Shut up you incorrigible bunch of racists
How come day two of the asylum-seeker story always begins with a lecture from The Age?
Never early for bleeding hearts to blame
The tragic events on Christmas Island unleash a furious bout of righteous finger-pointing.
Fairfax editors give up publishing news
News as it happened: another barely breathing scoop from our WikiLeaks correspondent.
We decided to buy you this lovely foot spa
The Sydney Morning Herald wishes all its readers a thoroughly miserable Christmas.
I’m not a terrorist, I’m just training
Hmn, this is not quite the David Hicks we read about in his letters home.
Cheaper mortgages & Cupcake Maker to boot
But wait, there’s more! Swan’s Toywatch reveals 50 per cent savings on Tamagotchis.
A fair way short of a fair go at Fairfax
Even Richo finds the non-transparent use of the WikiLeaks releases to smear targets a bit rich.
A point The Australian keeps making again
Barrie Cassidy retains his regular slot in Cut & Paste by going on Andrew Bolt’s radio show.
Not the grovelling apology we were after
In breaking news, diplomatic sources reveal The Australian wasn’t making it up after all.
Information theft or liberation movement?
Stolen emails, leaked diplomatic cables . . . spot the difference between Climategate v WikiLeaks.
Guess who is to blame for the Labor mess?
The Sydney Morning Herald’s analysts and Barrie Cassidy point the finger everywhere.
All I want for Christmas is a $36 billion NBN
All Labor has to do is believe in the NBN and hey presto, there’ll be political magic
Play nicely, Laura, you’ve had your turn
The AFR’s political editor shamelessly plays to the judges with a line too ridiculous to ignore.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard in trouble?
Former Labor opposition leader Mark Latham sees dark forces at work on these fair pages
Back-page Bob bites back at The Australian
The Australian affords Green’s (sic) leader Bob Brown the right of reply.
Keating played Mahler and we walked away
Don’t touch that mojo Julia, you’re no Placido Domingo, warns Michelle Grattan.
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