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Opposition leader Tony Abbott says he has never discussed the National Broadband Network with media proprietor Rupert Murdoch, after prime minister Kevin Rudd challenged him to reveal any conversation…
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…
The other day Greens leader Christine Milne noticed a tweet saying “Get out of the way Christine and leave it to the big boys”. “I just thought to myself, that is so symptomatic of the certain element…
Tony Abbott says his $5 billion company tax relief can be paid for out of the $17 billion cuts he has already announced, but the government is conjuring up a bigger, broader GST being needed under a Coalition…
Opposition leader Tony Abbott will promise business a 1.5% company tax cut from July 1 2015, at a cost of $5 billion over the budget period. Abbott will say the measure will further help Australian businesses…
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…
The Media Panel’s co-chair, Professor Brian McNair, says the days of Rupert Murdoch’s influence on election results are gone, with the company weakened and today’s citizenry no longer passive consumers…
The interest rate drop of 25 basis points to 2.5% - a new half century record low – will be a relief to mortgage holders focused on cost of living, an issue biting in this election. It’s positive news…
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…
Kevin Rudd spent $650 million today - $450 million in the afternoon for out-of- hours school care, after $200 million in the morning for the car industry. Not a bad effort in a campaign where money is…
The government has handed out $200 million to help the embattled car industry, in its first major campaign commitment, as well as mandating a 100% Australian-made target for the purchase of Commonwealth…
Chris Bowen, the new Labor Treasurer, has announced the government’s plans for savings and new sources of revenue to meet a budget shortfall with the aim of bring about the elusive budget surplus in 2016/17…
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…
Kevin Rudd has called an election for September 7, with Labor and the Coalition entering the campaign close in two party terms and the next five weeks likely to be decisive for the outcome. Rudd went to…
Kevin Rudd has raised new uncertainty over the election timetable by saying his intention is to be in St Petersburg for the G20 and declaring that he has not settled on an election date. The PM had been…
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…
A slowing economy and drop in government revenue has led to an increased budget deficit, new taxes and some cuts to existing programs. Delivering the Rudd government’s long awaited economic statement…
The deficit will blow out to $30 billion this financial year and Australia will remain in the red for 12 months longer than the budget promised, after a $33 billion write-down in revenue. Growth has been…
Tony Abbott has moved to neutralise school funding as an election issue by promising to match “dollar for dollar” the money that Labor has promised over the next four years. Making his dramatic announcement…
With the polls so close, could the unthinkable happen? Might we see another hung parliament? On the balance of probabilities, surely not. But just consider, hypothetically, what it would be like if, say…