Former Crikey writer-turned-News Corp columnist has been made redundant from The Australian. Kerr wrote for Crikey until he was lured away by Rupert in 2008 — or as former editor Jonathan Green put it, “Christian Kerr left in a chauffeur-driven huff”. At The Australian, Kerr occasionally filled in for James Jeffrey on Strewth (not occasionally enough for our liking; his Strewth columns were generally woeful) and wrote culture warrior pieces like the one “outing” Larissa Waters’ six-year-old daughter for wearing a pink dress at a birthday party. The story in print included a black bar over the little girl’s eyes. Crikey‘s own Guy Rundle didn’t think much of it. News Corp declined to comment on Kerr’s redundancy, and we have no word yet on where he might be going next.