Team Labor then followed up the knifing of the PM by revealing Rudd’s rudeness, incompetence and total lack of prime-ministerial ability. Then bingo. Out comes the hypocrisy-wand. All is forgiven. “Kevin…mate… we need your help. Like now…out of bed, mate!
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Peter Coleman's latest collection of essays, The Last Intellectuals, contains a sharp, funny and sometimes stern series of meditations on a career spent in the domestic and international culture wars.
The on, off, and on again, ‘real and genuine friendship’ between Julia and Kevin is a marvellously enigmatic story that may yet have more twists and turns to further confuse and confound Tony Abbott and swing the election.
After an extraordinarily rushed hearing in time for the election on 21 August, the High Court has upheld the GetUp! challenge to changes to the Electoral Act made in 2006 under the previous government.
Marxists and other revolutionaries also knew that a nation could be just as effectively overthrown when undermined from within. Taking over the institutions of power and influence can just as readily bring about the new social order desired by the radicals.
Who would get appointed to Julia Gillard citizens’ assembly set-up to look at climate change? Would we see many appointees who are sceptical that global warming is taking place at all? No. Would we see many who admit warming is taking place, but that man is not responsible? No.
Philippa Martyr has discovered an Australian film worth watching.
Julia Gillard has announced she will now campaign as the real Julia Gillard. Her citizen's assembly tells us exactly what she remains, committed to a powerful state and an obedient citizenry who will pay and pay generously for all her plans and programmes.
Environment Minister Peter Garrett welcomes the inclusion of convict sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list. Yet political cowardice has left the second oldest site of Australian settlement vandalised and derelict.
Australia’s much better economic performance is down to other things and the problem for the Labor government is not being able to claim credit for any of this. And Gillard wants to debate it!
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