Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard writes: Crikey! Ten years! Hard to believe that the Crikey Crew have been doing the stories that others won’t touch for that long. May you continue to break stories, distribute detailed commentary, provide entertainment, purvey in a little gossip and of course give a vehicle for Mr On-The-Moon for another 10 years.

Greg Hunt, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage, writes: Congratulations Crikey on 10 years of robust journalism chronicling everything from the dynamism of the political world to the intricacies of business. I congratulate Crikey on the contribution it has made, and continues to make, to journalism and public commentary in this country. Sometimes controversial, often diverse but always interesting and entertaining. Crikey is known far and wide as a euphemism for current affairs and critical commentary not just an expression of dismay, though sometimes the two go hand in hand. From humble beginnings you have grown to become a significant media commentator and have helped change the way that Australians read the news in the process. Happy birthday Crikey and here’s to another 10 years.

Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop writes: Crikey has been pushing the boundaries for a decade and has become a fixture in Australia’s political landscape.

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner writes: Happy birthday to Crikey. I hope you ruthlessly scrutinise everyone in politics except me!

Greens Senator Christine Milne writes: Congratulations, Crikey, on your tremendous achievement of 10 years of truly independent media. What sets Crikey apart is your courage — your courage to ask the hard questions, your courage to make the cutting, critical analysis that, for many reasons, the majority of the mainstream media too often fails to provide. Crikey does not merely report details or run party lines. You have become a highly valued forum to drive debate in this country. Happy birthday and many happy returns !

Celebrity Matt Preston writes: I had a meeting with one of my heroes the other day. He had a photocopy of a First Dog cartoon behind his desk. It actually made me think more of him. I also felt we shared something. Not like a kiss or a cigarette or a Second World War but still something … meaningful and connecting. A similar self-defining guilty pleasure shown only to those who braved this inner sanctum. It also made me think that you’ve come a long way in the last 10 years Ms Spikey Crikey….you started off as a sarky news thing but, frankly, you’re obviously a lot more huggable these days.

Radio National presenter Phillip Adams writes: I should resent Crikey for reminding me of my ancientness. (That I belong to the bygone, woebegone era of newspaper and wireless, of printed books and sprocketed film. It’s almost 60 years since I was first published, I’ve been mumbling into a microphone for over 30 years and made my first feature film on a clockwork camera in the 1960s. As many readers and listeners remind me I should be dead.)  This unreconstructed Luddite uses a computer sparingly — for tapping out chapters and columns, answering emails, and getting Crikey.  No websites for me, no blogging or tweeting or Facebooking. Too busy reading old-fashioned books and mags, participating in what little’s left of mass media. Crikey is my only concession to the digital age. And I have a great affection for it. I’m keen on Keane, think Rundle’s marvellous when he’s not being ostentatiously clever, and have become addicted to First Dog on the Moon. After 10 years I anxiously await 1.30s for the damned thing to arrive. Some of it’s surplus to requirements  — don’t give a stuff about the TV ratings. But Crikey’s long been as indispensible as it’s irreverent, annoying and risk-taking. So if I had the lung capacity I’d help blow out its candles and wheeze a chorus of  happy birthday.

ABC Local Radio presenter Jon Faine writes: Did Stephen Mayne follow up on his appalling dismissal  and abuse of me in [last] Thursday’s Crikey? Did he manage to put in writing the grovelling apology he made in person at the Press Club function on Thursday? In Thursday’s edition of your online gossip sheet he slammed me for wimping out and not naming and shaming on air a senior Murdoch executive convicted years ago over drink driving. Stephen had called talkback that morning on the day when the Herald Sun on its front page slammed a new magistrate for a drink-driving episode seven years before being appointed to the bench. I declined to put him to air and declined his goading to name the senior executive on 774 ABC Melbourne, which he gleefully went on to do in his Crikey column later that day. I pointed out to Stephen at the Press Club that surely what his Crikey column meant to do was thank me for being consistent and not showing the hypocrisy that he rightly saw from the H-Sun. But I have not seen the follow up — and that is one of Crikey‘s strengths and weaknesses.  Happy 10th birthday.