With our fifth anniversary beckoning, the challenge is on to come up with a list of our best stories from the Crikey website since it all began on February 14, 2000. Here are 80 personal favourites of the editor’s to kick things off. If you have any suggestions on what should be added, please email boss@crikey.com.au.
Bringing down the Democrats
Richard Howard’s White House internship
Delia Delegate dishes dirty doozies
Howard’s tax reform con
Crikey election editorial – time for a change
Crikey demolishes Bracks budget
How an average hack became the PM’s Prime Spinner
Pissing in the sink
Voodoo economics of major events
Greenway to heaven and a religious wedge
Tabloid TV at its exploitative worst
The Egan Diaries – thoughts of a bored state Treasurer
Time to sack the NRMA board again
Why would the WA Libs want Cronin
Glory without power – the loyal deputy and me
Aussie soccer – Jeffed again
The complete history and future of Ansett
Kooka Bros farewell The Munster
The Kooka Brothers at Benji’s last ride
Sticking it to John Singleton
Graeme Samuel vs Gerry Harvey
Every angle on the 2003 News Corp AGM
McCrann delivers biggest ever Crikey spray
Ian Frykberg and the great racing bunfight
Bob Carr’s sleazy fundraiser
Inside the election debate haggling
Alan Jackson’s ill-fated industrial conglomerate
The best and worst of Andrew Robb
The Quills: a donkey or a mule?
John Maconochie vs National Australia Bank
Rupert’s Orwellian vision
Rupert’s long march for a Chinese blessing
NSW: the corrupt state
Rupert and Wendi on their Chinese joy ride
Exclusive – Lowy and Westfield sign erroneous EY accounts
An entertaining and independent HTV card for the nation
Boilermaker Bill on Green donations
Eddie McGuire’s Herald Sun plug-fest
Downer: pompous colonial git
The Lion Nathan pub raid
Labor heavyweights win free subs for mentions
John Alexander’s many business networks
Mad Max vs the fourth estate
Diana Burleigh: how I won The Einstein Factor
The rorting aspirations of Senator Sue Knowles
Crullers takes on Eddie McGuire and distributes through Steve Price
Alex Sanchez – my NRMA nightmare
Hilmer censors Keating on cross-media laws
Tuckey travel rorts and other WA Liberal shenanigans
Revisiting the Marks Royal Commission
Hillary Bray on tax and spend
Did Peter Jess look after Carlton footballer Steve Oliver properly?
How Aunty’s History Detectives became defective
How open proxies have shafted Crikey
Crikey at the 2004 Walkley Awards
Fraud hits the ABC
Every conceivable angle on Eddie’s conflicts
Old and new from the parrot
Parrot droppings: big mouth strikes again
Kennett’s carnival is over
Kennett’s contempt: the Parliamentary Super ultimatum affair
Hillary visits the Territory and observes the wild life
Tasmanian election: the parties, the issues, the people
Hutchison embraces HIH legacy
Diary of a talkback tragic
Patrick Fitzgerald/Max Factor comes out
Aunty’s George Negus Tonight debacle
Exposed: the Ruth Dunkin PHD
The slow rise of the social entrepreneur
Spinning numbers in the pokies tax war
Paul Keating unplugged
$30,000 in freebies and still skinny
World’s oldest columnist: how I saw all of the 20th century
Hamlet, Prince of Maroubra
Boilermaker Bill on Labor leadership
Boilermaker Bill’s Labour Day Lament
Boilermaker Bill on Clover Moore’s rise and rise
George Pell – In the footy boots of the fisherman
George Pell – Crunching the College of Cardinals
Boilermaker Bill on civil imperial England
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