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As world finances unravel, PM loses the plot
The Federal Government's economic narrative has been mugged by reality and is completely shredded. In less than a year, the argument has gone from...
Rudd's generosity will exacerbate crisis
Banking failures in New York and even pressures on some Australian banks all seem remote from our own day-to-day lives. Yet these massive economic...
Rudd fails leadership test
It's the end of another week of - alternately - financial fear, hope, and then despair. Everyone is asking: ‘‘How bad will it get?''...
Bartlett's big spend may miss its mark
Following the Federal Government's $10.4 billion package to pump-prime the national economy, Premier David Bartlett has announced his own extra...
Confidence tricks fail to secure our economic future
The Rudd government's $10.4 billion fiscal stimulus package is nothing more than a set of confidence tricks played out on the Australian people....
Roos for Ruminants but What about Rice
The Federal Government's climate change advisor, Professor Ross Garnaut, has suggested that reducing sheep and cattle numbers and...
How we found ourselves ambushed by reality
Australia's love of emissions trading to combat global warming is ending in the face of economic uncertainty, says Tom Switzer Kevin Rudd likes to...
Big bucks roll in poll quest
Despite both Labor and the Liberals promising to outdo each other on the fiscal conservative criteria, The Canberra Times election "spendometer" in...
Reprising the 1930s degringolade
"You don't know what you're doing" is the soccer crowd's refrain to a failing team manager's player selections. Such an accusation applies to...
Why greed's just too small a word to hang a crisis on
Pundits, letter writers, talk-back radio callers, John McCain and the Prime Minister all agree: It Woz Greed Wot Done It. In a speech in Sydney...