The long awaited release of the Henry Tax Review will reveal Canberra'splans to plunder the wealth of Western Australia and Queensland. Instead Canberra should give the States back their money. A Convention to restore the Federation as the people intended may be the best way to achieve this.
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Perhaps the profligacy and lack of control in government programmes was deliberate. Perhaps Rudd and Gillard were only following Keynesian economic policy. After all, they kept us out of recession....didn’t they?
The Rudd hospital plan was clearly not shown to constitutional experts before it was announced, which suggests that, like so many others, it is just another poorly conceived back-of-the-envelope proposal.
The danger for the government is that its distinguishing features seem to be captured by the acronym PIP - Profligacy, Incompetence, and Panic. If the Howard battlers agree, a second term is no longer assured.
Those in the media who say get rid of Barnarby are out of touch. Barnaby and Tony are just the sort of people the public want.
The Blackwater case will be seen around the world as an imperialist US protecting the killers of innocent Iraqis. In fact it is the result of a criminal justice system more concerned with the perpetrators of crime than its victims.
The Victorian Attorney-General’s word changes do not address the real problems of declining law and order and an effectively inaccessible civil law system.
It is bad enough when politicians refer to "the" science, but the Prime Minister of Australia demeaned his high office when he not only called those who question his infallibility “dangerous”, he went on to libel them with a totally unjustified smear.
The commentariat wrote off Tony Abbott but now they have egg on their faces over the weekend by-elections. In just a few days he has changed the debate. And the electors like what they see.
The choice of Tony Abbott as leader is a victory for common sense. He showed that in his first decision, which was to hold a secret ballot. The party then sensibly decided not to accept the government ultimatum to pass the ETS for the sole purpose of allowing Kevin Rudd to boast about it at Copenhagen.
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