People & associates
John Roskam
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...
Mad ads won't help PM
Some people in the Labor Party are delusional. They think Kevin Rudd's problem is that he's not "selling" his policies. Apparently, if he improved...
Rudd loses grip on reality
Kevin Rudd's reliance on economic modelling to justify his resource super profits tax (RSP'I) is ironic. Only a year ago he was blaming economic...
No self-control in budget
Kevin Rudd has come full circle. Before the 2007 federal election, he was a fiscal conservative. During the global financial crisis, he was a...
A PM without a platform
Not everything John Maynard Keynes said was wrong. Admittedly his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money became the guidebook for 40...
NSW: nice and mediocre
At the rate it's going, NSW will end up like Europe. A nice place to go for a holiday, but you wouldn't want to live there. Or start a business...
Choosing their villains
State premiers and big business have a lot in common these days. Neither is much liked at the moment. State governments, especially Labor ones...
Dismissal ruling isn't fair
"Pity the bosses" was the first reaction to the decision of Fair Work Australia a few weeks ago in the case of Paul L. Quinlivan v Norske Skog...
Folly of focusing on Joyce
The Canberra press gallery has peculiar priorities. This week we've found out that the national broadband network hired a Labor mate to a $450,000...
Leadership lacking on tax
At the rate Kevin Rudd is going, there's every chance tax reform will go the same way as "the greatest moral challenge of our generation". After...