News Articles for Simon Crean

Simon Crean will be remembered for qualities such as integrity over self-interest, honesty, and consistency in core beliefs.

Last week's failed leadership tilt has sparked further upheaval in the Labor caucus and yet another ministerial reshuffle.

Prime minister Julia Gillard and her deputy Wayne Swan will continue in their jobs, after no competing candidates entered the leadership ballot called in Canberra today.

The parallels with the emerging industrial climate and that which prevailed in the 1970s and 1980s are clear.

THE federal government has announced a new funding program that will take visual arts on tour to regional locations across Australia.

DESPITE a major spat with federal Liberal deputy leader Julie Bishop, political observer Peter van Onselen still puts her in his top 10 most influential Western Australians.

JUST as former Labor premier Brian Burke vacated the media spotlight over lobbying, his long-time party pal Kim Beazley came into its beam. State Scene certainly never expected to be re-focusing on Mr Beazley so soon