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Kevin Rudd has done well to recruit Peter Beattie. Just as Bob Carr was a good catch for Julia Gillard. There is nothing wrong with a bit of recycling in politics, provided that, as with other products…
There are only 150 seats in the House of Representatives. You would think it would not be beyond the wit and wisdom of the major parties, which fight to be the government, to choose good, or at least appropriate…
It’s hard to imagine Rupert Murdoch sitting on Twitter, isn’t it? But tweet he does and today Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his deputy Anthony Albanese tweeted back. For “tweet” and “tweeted” in that sentence…
When you want to avoid an exam you need a really good excuse. There was no way Tony Abbott would ever have accepted the invitation to debate Kevin Rudd on Sky tonight. But as it happened he was able to…
It was freezing in the Prime Minister’s courtyard at Parliament House. But there was no way that Kevin Rudd was going to launch his election 2013 campaign anywhere else. It was in this courtyard, after…
The government has done its best to make a bad economic situation as politically salvageable as possible. It had to bring down today’s statement, because the worsening numbers would have come out early…
With the election imminent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics has a nifty new (free) app, based on census data, to tell you all you need to know about your electorate, and every other one in the country…
The government is already making a virtue out of one of the “hits” that will raise billions in its economic statement. And it’s got a good case. Tobacco excise will go up. Of course the government would…
When it comes to parties’ asylum policies, it’s the Greens versus the majors. As the boat flow has increased and the government and Coalition have sought to outdo each other in their responses, the Greens…
One would never have thought it could reach this stage, but Australia’s debate about asylum seekers is now worse than in 2001. As Labor and Coalition try to out-tough each other, the boat arrivals are…