According to Crikey hack Andrew Crook
Another Thornley backed outfit, PerCapita, conceived as a direct competitor to free market think tanks like the IPA and the CIS, has been more active in recent months with ex-Latham staffer Michael Cooney regularly hitting the airwaves to take on its scorched earth rivals.
But as I reported on this blog, Cooney has left Per Capita, and has been working in Canberra for someone else since early December last year – over the few months in which Crook thinks he has been regularly hitting the airwaves.
Don’t believe anything you read about think-tanks in Crikey. They are just making it up.
Andrew Norton 
Oh, give him some marks for style … I was quite entertained by his piece in New Matilda yesterday on Rudd’s essay – “All the nation needs is a nerd from Nambour …… “
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Marks wrote re Rudd’s polemic:
‘However for people whose primary focus is on economics — people who have read countless earlier repetitions of this “Third Way” argument in trade/development/policy journals over the past 20 years — the typical response is, “so what’s new?”‘
More to the point, what is true? This was a question that the folk on Club Troppo managed to sidestep.
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That’s true, but it can be more simply stated as:
Don’t believe anything you read in Crikey. They are just making it up.
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Well, that’s about the most conclusive example you’ll see of what the kids these days call ‘pwnage’. Nicely done, Andrew (Norton, not Crook).
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G’day Andrew,
David Hetherington just popped in to my Canberra office and I was reminded that you’d posted about our current status.
Just to clarify, I’m now a Research Fellow with Per Capita – along with Dennis Glover who your readers would be familiar with (and who was recently in the Oz again).
Two new Project Leaders are starting with Per Capita this month – watch that space.
See you soon.
Michael
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Michael – Thanks for the update, but have you been ‘hitting the airwaves’ on Per Capita’s behalf in recent months?
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Oh mate you’d have to ask Andrew Crook – he’s been doing the media monitoring.
I can’t be expected to keep track of ALL my wheelings and dealings.
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