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Kevin Rudd, who has just experienced political resurrection, professes his strong faith in the supernatural variety in a book on the religious beliefs of Australian prime minister, launched today. Rudd…
Though the date is now in flux, then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s decision to announce the election months in advance has meant the campaigning in Eden-Monaro began some time ago. There are already six…
With speculation reaching fever pitch about election timing, voters from the bellwether seat of Eden-Monaro are strongly urging Kevin Rudd to call the poll quickly. The University of Canberra, in conjunction…
Announcements last week of the escalating damage to the Great Barrier Reef confirm Australia’s most famous and intensely managed Marine Protected Area has not been properly protected. UNESCO’s recent review…
Kevin Rudd has pulled out every available stop to persuade voters that he can stop the boats - not immediately, but eventually. The Australian government has spectacularly outsourced its asylum seeker…
Kevin Rudd has unveiled a dramatic new hard line policy to stop any asylum seekers arriving by boat ever being settled in Australia. Australia and Papua New Guinea have signed an agreement for people arriving…
The big question for the coming weeks is whether voters’ deep and long-held disillusionment with brand Labor will prevail over their enthusiastic re-engagement with its popular leader. Labor has reached…
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…
Do you have a right to be “forgotten” by Google searches and other internet search engines? That question is being considered in Europe currently, where the European Court of Justice has received advice…
The government has more than financed the $3.8 billion cost of moving early to an Emissions Trading Scheme, with savings including a crackdown on fringe benefits for cars, cuts to the number of senior…
“Under this [Labor] government we’ve seen one manufacturing job lost every 19 minutes.” - Opposition industry spokeswoman Sophie Mirabella, Q&A, 1 July. The Conversation contacted Mirabella’s office…
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 federal government expects Victoria to sign up to the Better Schools funding plan next week, and has extended the deadline for negotiations with outstanding states on the package. Victoria and Queensland…
It is so Kevin. A couple of weeks back into the prime ministership, a million things to do – and Rudd’s nipping off to Papua New Guinea. Just wanted to see the regional neighbours, he explained when asked…
“Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak,” wrote the English poet William Congreve in 1697. These days, we tend to take music’s inherent charms for granted and…
Kevin Rudd has set out a “national competitiveness agenda” for Australia and said the nation must lift its annual productivity growth rate to 2% or better. Addressing the National Press Club, the Prime…
While for some Australians the recent leadership spill will be viewed as a simple act of restorative justice, many others would have spectated on events in Canberra with an equal measure of indifference…
Kevin Rudd today will paint Tony Abbott as “Captain Negative”, unwilling to do the hard work needed to develop policies to change the country and guilty of talking Australia down. Appearing at the National…