Former minister Craig Emerson and former South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill have pinpointed key weaknesses in Labor’s 2019 election strategy.
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The long-awaited review has pinpointed key flaw’s in Labor’s strategy leading up to the 2019 federal election, including a cluttered policy agenda and an unpopular leader.
Richard Di Natale is publicly perched on the barbed-wire fence over the government’s Gonski legislation.
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Labor has formally decided to try to thwart the government’s Gonski schools legislation, while the Greens are looking over their shoulder at what their base would think if they opt to back it. Meanwhile…
Kevin Rudd is once again the Prime Minister of Australia.
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Labor has finally made the decision it ought to have taken long ago, but the counter-revolution has been extremely bloody and there are bodies all over the place. Not only is there a new Prime Minister…
Tertiary education minister Craig Emerson has outlined heavy cuts for the higher sector to help pay for the Gonski school reforms.
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The higher education sector is to take heavy budget cuts to help pay for the government’s Gonski school funding plan, a key measure in Julia Gillard’s bid for re-election. About A$2.3 billion will be saved…
New tertiary education minister Craig Emerson needs to bring stability to a portfolio that has seen three ministers in 2013.
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Craig Emerson is definitely a multitasker. Who can forget his singing routine on national television last year when he borrowed the tune of the 1970s Skyhooks rock classic Horror Movie and lampooned alarmist…
Craig Emerson may be well regarded as Trade Minister, but he can’t sing.
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It is a clear and incontrovertible case for the Deparment of Community Services and the public must immediately demand intervention. We cannot allow the suffering of the children to continue. I am of course…