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Photo essay: What happens versus what the media see.

Gillard’s hasty marriage of convenience to Brown gave her a political stay of execution and Brown a dowry of green-left goodies including the Greens’ monster tax on everything forever, which eventually would make Treasurer Wayne Swan’s mining shakedown look like a video rental late fee hike.

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Julia Gillard’s Labor Government is set to make a blunder – to second-guess the market and spend tens of billions to back one technology, fixed-line broadband, over others in the midst of a rapidly changing business-technology environment for political reasons.

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Only a few weeks ago most of the Canberra political establishment and the media looked on slack-jawed as Bob Brown bizarrely blamed Australia’s coal miners for the Queensland floods and demanded that they pay for it. It was colossally cynical and politically demented even for Brown.

Australia and its SE Asian friends should be concerned when the head of US intelligence thinks the Muslim Brotherhood is about charitable works and civic values.

As a culture, we’ve come to expect, particularly since the death of Princess Diana, our public leaders to grieve in a profuse, infantilising way, slowly turning the culture into a population of Bambi-eyed grief junkies.