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We are now well into the election campaign, and both the Libs and the ALP seem to be scrambling for the lowest risk middle ground. The area I am most interested in, environment, flows into population issues, urban planning and infrastructure, food security and of course climate change.
On none […] Continue Reading…
I knew that John Howard would be in trouble at the 2007 election the instant that Tim Flannery was appointed Australian of the Year. It was obvious that Flannery would spend his 12 months flaying the government on climate change.
Howard should have known about his potential appointment in the […] Continue Reading…
When you’re struggling for credibility why would you re-announce the most announced infrastructure project in Queensland’s history? Yes, there must be an election on because someone has promised to build the Redcliffe to Brisbane railway line, yet again. And that someone is Julia Gillard, whose announcements last week of […] Continue Reading…
Is she the ‘biggest dud since Rudd’? Or just Abbott’s twin sister? We’ve seen her mettle, she must believe, because now we are supposed to trust her for a term of her own. A bit too quick for my liking.
We seem to have no choice but to listen politely […] Continue Reading…
Julia Gillard proclaimed today at her first set speech of the campaign that this election would be a “referendum on services for working families”. Her first offering was a speech on a sustainable Australia in which she managed to wrap up an amazing number of campaign themes, and even […] Continue Reading…
Now that the mining tax has been sorted, and already forgotten, we can move on to refugees. Just what was sorted with the mining tax already slips into oblivion, but the miners are happy. Somewhere along the road to compromise the public good had to yield, all too predictably.
The […] Continue Reading…
Kevin’s implosion and Julia’s incompetence leave room for Malcolm in the middle. […] Continue Reading…
With her rebadged Resource Super Profits Tax Julia Gillard confirms she has no vision for Australia and that big business cannot and should not be relied upon to look after the common interest.
It is a pea and thimble trick that appears to have fooled the mining companies, but should […] Continue Reading…
Writing in the BRW, Phil Ruthven puts the lie to the, well lie, that the mining industry is earning super profits. […] Continue Reading…
Time to focus on the key issues, as an election may be sooner now than later. Only open, evidence based policy should be allowed. The spun has begun: we now have a minister for ‘sustainable’ population, with heaps of blather from Tony Burke to reassure anyone who chooses to […] Continue Reading…