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Chasing the xenophobic vote
Tony Abbott must be feeling a little like Victorian opposition leader Ted Baillieu this week. For the last 12 months, Baillieu has been trying to...
Coup is good news for Whitlam
Julia Gillard has a lot to thank Kevin Rudd for. The failure of Rudd's personal leadership style gave Tony Abbott a fighting chance at changing the...
Gillard's first clue on carbon stance a worry
Under its climate change proposals, Canberra proposed an energy tax, rising to more than $18 billion a year - $900 per person. Lower carbon dioxide...
Expediency spelt his exit
If you act like a NSW Labor premier, you get treated like one. In the end Kevin Rudd came to be perceived by the electorate as concerned only with...
Speak out, Robert Manne: Ken Henry silences dissent
If Australian bureaucrats were bound by baseball rules, Treasury secretary Ken Henry has had his three strikes, and it's time to go back to the...
No more frank and fearless
On Treasury's conservative estimates, the super profits tax on miners, as well as foreclosing new projects, is a grab on profits of existing...
The pursuit of economic growth
The financial crisis must be over. Whenever the economy crashes, wise men and women say we need governments to manage the financial world for...
PM's economic shambles
The government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has not lived up to its early promise. Rudd is not an economic conservative; the surplus is gone, and...
Ruddtopia: fool's gold
In October 2006 Kevin Rudd published his now famous Brutopia essay in The Monthly magazine. One paragraph in particular stands out. There is a...
Taking liberties
It should be clear by now that the Rudd government is not a government full of civil libertarians. Sure, there's less to the government's intention...