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The weekend was a bit ordinary for me, but as supercoach Wayne Bennett says, if you can’t say anything nice say nothing. That’s how he addressed his troops after the thrashing they got in the previous week. This week they [...]
What Is Abbott Really Up To?
Are Tony Abbott's basic economic errors a deliberate distraction from his conservative economic vision? Why aren't the Greens pushing for a broader tax base? Ian McAuley unpacks the Budget replies
Abbott Will Cut Deeper Than The ALP
Neither the ALP nor the Coalition are giving the voter who cares about social fairness — not just jobs and money — much to go on. Eva Cox on Tony Abbott's Budget reply
They were wrong, Age admits. But keep believing those warmists
Sure, warmists exaggerated the temperature rise so far, The Age finally admits. But we still have to believe they’ll be right about the apocalypse to…
The very model of a modern climatologist
Via Digging in the Clay, Gilbert and Sullivan brilliantly updated: I am the very model of…
Another AWU slush fund Gillard helped
What is it with Julia Gillard and AWU slush funds? …
The vicious ignorance of Helen Polley
Labor Senator Helen Polley is as hysterical and vicious as she…
Is there a Liberal leader in NSW?
Barry O’Farrell called for a review of free speech laws because not enough people had been locked…
Column - Black conservatives against the New Racism
SIGNING up former Labor president Warren Mundine helps Tony Abbott show he’s ending the…
Labor now swears it will cut spending like it never has before
Henry Ergas says Labor’s promise to return the Budget to surplus is three years is
Raising the GST
In a sane world, Labor would also be contemplating the possibility of raising the GST. It seems that Joe Hockey, who circle-squaring challenge seems to get greater every time Tony Abbott opens his mouth, is at least broaching the idea, [...]
Swan never was going to give us a surplus
VIDEO: Anthony Albanese Interview Ep 11 From my interview yesterday with Infrastructure and Transport…
Er, no, Tim. We do really believe in more than ourselves
I am astonished - well, not really - that a “political philosopher at the University of Sydney” could seriously hold such a crudely Manichean view…
He claimed he was busy, but he just lacked numeracy skills
Is “numeracy skills” a euphemism? As in: “The used car salesman said the car had been driven only by a widow in slippers on Sundays,…
Pants on fire alert
A lack of irony, humor and a sense of proportion is a dangerous thing. Also, boring: Australia’s Politifact is…
Nielsen says Labor boosed by Budget, Newspoll no
I am surprised. A Budget like that gives Julia Gillard a boost - or was it her tears? The…
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Nielsen: 54-46 to Coalition
Another post-budget 54-46 result...
Insiders no longer the excuse Mark Scott once claimed
Readere Peter wonders if Insiders has gone on a war footing: AB, worrying signs at Insiders that the established three-versus-one format (Barrie + two…
Labor no worse off after the Budget
Good news for Labor. A Budget that should have utterly destroyed its credibility actually leaves it no worse off: WAYNE Swan’s decision…
