Janine Perrett
Janine Perrett is a journalist, broadcaster and commentator. She is a former business news editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and has worked as a correspondent in Britain and the US.
Opinion
Australia votes
Stuck in high school: Why are candidates boasting about their academic records?
Paul Keating left school at 15 and that didn’t stop him from winning accolades for being an economic reformer.
- by Janine Perrett
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Opinion
Political leadership
Politicians trash-talking their leader is not new, but here’s what worries the PM most about the Berejiklian text leak
It’s not what it said so much as the timing of the leak - amid a bitter internal Liberal Party brawl in the countdown to the federal election.
- by Janine Perrett
Opinion
Australia votes
Why wouldn’t the Liberals run a candidate with ICAC baggage - the ALP did
An appearance in the ICAC is survivable - it helps if no adverse findings are made.
- by Janine Perrett
Opinion
Political leadership
Boo! Berejiklian’s bad luck with men is a scary affair
The Premier never had much luck with men, even the ones she didn’t choose.
- by Janine Perrett
Opinion
Political leadership
Porter shows bar is now so low for parliamentary accountability it’s getting hard to see
It will now be left to the poor voters in his WA seat of Pearce to determine just how immune the electorate has become to the litany of scandals, conflicts and contempt.
- by Janine Perrett
Opinion
Political leadership
Maggoted? It would be kinder to say tired and emotional
While a senator denies she was intoxicated in the chamber, the episode perhaps exposes Australians’ tolerance for political drinking - and a national fascination with the terminology for inebriation.
- by Janine Perrett
Opinion
Millennials
Millennials’ FOMO fuelling the new YOLO economy
YOLO may not be a new idea, but Millennials have made it their own and are changing the economy along the way.
- by Janine Perrett
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
No amount of spin is likely to save our cricketers from this new PR disaster
Only three years ago, Australian cricketers were accused of a “culture of arrogance” but now they’ve flown into another public relations storm.
- by Janine Perrett
Opinion
Political leadership
Gladys Berejiklian is a political animal in a fight for survival
It's been one hell of a year for a Premier who has had to suppress far more than the current COVID-19 outbreak.
- by Janine Perrett
Opinion
Comedy
All the big questions for 2021 – and quite a few littles ones too
How do you have an affair during a pandemic. How are the rich getting richer. And can things get any worse?
- by Janine Perrett
Opinion
Coronavirus pandemic
Harwin's departure gives Berejiklian breathing space but exposes ongoing rifts
Tensions abound internally in NSW and between the state and federal governments.
- by Janine Perrett
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