The Australian has yet again attacked bloggers with an opinion piece by former Crikey writer Christian Kerr which has predictably set the cat amongst the bloggers.

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Now you can vote for the candidate best suited to lead Australian Liberals back to the Treasury benches.

Starbucks ... Christian Kerr ... Brendan Nelson ... Wikipedia ... building approvals ... internet filtering ...

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Crikey's irrelevance, Starbucks and Pyne ... Qantas ... Peter Costello ...

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World Youth Day dinners and bigots ... Emissions Trading Scheme -- how hard could it be? ... apple goodness

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Welcome to the political food chain, guys. Now you have to work out how much you want to trade off policy purity for the sake of getting part of what you want, writes Bernard Keane.

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Crikey didn't kill the Democrats, writes Andrew Le Clercq. It was merely a loud eager-beaver Greek chorus thingy on the sidelines.

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Crikey wrote the obit for the Democrats before the last election. Stephen Mayne rakes over the coals of Crikey's reportage on the demise of Don Chipp's dream.

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Crikey readers weigh in on the Australia Council, thinking pink, fixing politics and much more.

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