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Chris Bowen had originally booked into the National Press Club today to talk about his just published Hearts & Minds: A Blueprint for Modern Labor. But as he said, instead of having a backbencher spruiking…
The hung parliament is almost done. Surely we won’t see its return to the chambers. If Kevin Rudd wanted to reassemble the parliament before the election, he would need half a dozen cattle dogs to round…
UPDATE: Later the Indonesian Foreign Minister presented a more hard line view on tow-backs. Tony Abbott has got a useful break from Indonesia over his controversial turn-back-the-boats plan, with Foreign…
As today’s Nielsen poll shows Labor and Coalition 50-50 on the two-party vote, Kevin Rudd is doing what has been expected – he’s narrowing the policy gap between himself and Tony Abbott over carbon pricing…
The government this week is inching forward in its battle to get sign ups to its Better Schools plan – aka Gonski – but it still needs support from Victoria and the Catholics for the great leap that would…
Every now and then a politician gets caught on the sticky paper. That’s where Tony Abbott was today, and he didn’t cope well. It was always going to be a dog of a morning, with Newspoll showing the vote…
South Australian Independent senator Nick Xenophon is adopting a bargain basement approach to fund raising – donate more than $1500 and you’ll get a partial, or even a full, refund. Xenophon has had a…
Tony Abbott is streets behind Kevin Rudd as preferred PM – tomorrow’s Newspoll has him trailing 22 points - and now findings comparing their personal qualities tell us why. Essential Research has shown…
In yet another iteration of asylum seeker policy, the government now says that people who destroy their documentation will be sent to the back of the processing queue. This is distinguished from the opposition…
Bill Shorten didn’t ask for the Education portfolio but when Kevin Rudd added it to his Workplace Relations job it was familiar territory. Shorten’s mother Ann, who has a PhD in history, is co-author of…