I’ve just been trawling news sites and The Australian links to this ad, obviously evidence of how positive Kevin Rudd’s campaign is going to be: So, whose record is better on interest rates? The graph below of 90 bank bill rates, taken from data on the RBA site puts it in perspective. You can see […]

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has scored well in her debut as campaigner-in-chief in the Brisbane Central by-election. The ALP has scored 50.06% of the vote to date, which compares with 50.48% last time. This probably means that there was virtually no swing against the government. Why? It might be attributable to Bligh’s honeymoon. If it […]

I don’t understand this speech by John Howard “If re-elected, I will put to the Australian people within 18 months a referendum to formally recognise indigenous Australians in our Constitution – their history as the first inhabitants of our country, their unique heritage of culture and languages, and their special (though not separate) place within […]

One of the arguments for replacing John Howard with Peter Costello, even at this late stage, was the high standing in the polls of Tony Blair’s heir, Gordon Brown, immediately after he inherited the job. The lights have dimmed on that argument. Recent polling in the UK shows Gordon Brown losing his dominance over the […]

Kev07 must be driving a bandwagon with very strong halogens on it. He’s certainly got the Howard bunny so caught in the headlights that it fluffs even the easiest of questions. Today is the third anniversary of the last election, so Labor has predictably called on Howard to call the next election. The answer should […]

Leaked Liberal Party research says that the once-blue-ribbon seat of Ryan in Brisbane is “ultra-marginal” as a result of John Howard’s decision to fund the $2.3 B Goodna by-pass, rather than widening the existing Ipswich Motorway, according to this morning’s Australian. The research was most probably leaked by LP Headquarters in an effort to swing […]

That’s what the headlines should have been when it was revealed that Kevin Rudd and his wife have been looking for beachfront property to buy. Although I don’t agree with ALP front-bencher Tony Burke that the politics of envy are dead in Australia. When Rudd drops in popularity, being a mogul will be one reason […]

Maybe Kev07’s going to decriminalise marijuana (not a bad idea to my mind)? Was it a strip club or a strip joint he was caught in? Perhaps there was something other than tobacco in the stogies that Col Allen coerced him into puffing? Is someone going to ask him whether he inhaled, or not? Well, […]

One of the earliest things that the Goss government did when it gained power in Queensland in 1989 was to abolish the hospital boards that up until then had helped to administer the state’s hospitals. It was part of their allegedly “economically rational” agenda, in which Rudd was an integral player. It happened in most […]

Looks like the environment movement has finally managed to define “being alive” as an act of vandalism. This morning on ABC Radio National Breakfast I have repeatedly heard the meeting US sponsored meeting on climate change described as a meeting of “the 16 largest polluters”, referring to their level of CO2 emissions. Since when was […]