People & associates
John Roskam
Should they crash and burn...
Labor must not: IF Labor loses the federal election, there are four things the party must NOT do, if it wants to win in 2010: 1. DROP KEVIN Rolling...
Wild ride on the wages tiger
At his campaign launch, Kevin Rudd said that Australians "don't ask for a whole lot". Really? What explains $96 billion worth of election promises?...
Development is not a dirty word
No one has a mortgage on morality. But you could be mistaken for thinking otherwise if you've been following the argument over the past few days...
A body of iffy promises
One of the problems of election campaigns is that politicians promise to do things. Much of the time those promises involve spending taxpayers'...
Basics lacking in education debate
Kevin Rudd's tax rebate for parents to buy computers is gesture politics at its most meaningless. The reason that 15 per cent of students finish...
Pressure on to spend up big
Thirty-four billion dollars of tax cuts ensured the coalition maintained the political initiative during the first week of the election campaign....
Howard too good for his own benefit
Between now and November 24 the task for John Howard is simple. According to the wisdom prevailing among some Liberal MPs, the Prime Minister must...
How can voters decide on Rudd's unknown vision?
If ever there was an opportunity for the ALP to differentiate itself from the Coalition, it came last week. The announcement that the intake of...
Ripe for the razor gang
Sometimes politicians ask good questions. And sometimes the best questions are so obvious that nobody has thought to ask them. Last week Lindsay...
Rudd's confusing foreign policy
With a federal election campaign just a few weeks away, there are many things we still don't know about Kevin Rudd. We don't know his tax policy....