A moving target is much harder hit, which helps to explain why last week's Audit Commission report had no trouble homing in on so many budget-balancing cuts and reforms.

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Military sorts will determine the best targets for Australia's newly ordered fleet of Joint Strike Fighters. Joe Hockey, preparing to unveil his first budget, needs no such guidance.

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Well that's OK then -- the Australian Labor Party will soon be an entirely new beast, thanks to the groundbreaking efforts of Bill Shorten, that born, raised and pre-selected product of the Trades Hall bruvverhood. Now, all of a sudden, the rolls wil be open to new members who don't come with the union label. Deomcracy? Well, there's that, but self-interest can't be ignored. With the Royal Commission into union corruption just getting started, it may well be that Shorten will enjoy the company of like-minded sorts who don't need to consult counsel before opening their mouths.

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And yet it lives! The planet-cooling carbon tax, which has heated up so many power bills, survived today's bid in the Senate to see it dispatched. A simple and ugly brute, that it commanded the affection of Christine Milne was to be expected. The loyalty of Bill Shorten is a mystery -- unless, perhaps, a misplaced strand of political DNA has inspired the urge to suicide. There is an election looming in WA, where the tax is not very popular. Poor Bill, he may well have consigned his Labor leadership to an adjacent Death Row cell.

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They Marched in March -- the usual suspects in all their serried shades of anger and incoherence -- because, well, it would have made even less sense to bemoan the fact that Tony Abbott and the Coalition won an election last September by April-ing in April. Zeg is fearful of such antics' impact on the easily impressed.

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  More of Bolt’s attempts to clear his name here. Below is the text of the columnist’s letter to Scott: On your show last Monday, Marcia Langton made the following false claims: – I was a “fool” who believed in “race theories” – I had subjected one of her colleagues to “foul abuse … simply […]

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The case notes suggest that only a medical miracle-worker can put the condition imperilling Australia's healthcare system into remission, not to mention getting the legacy of a big-spending, long-gone Prime Minister off the Abbott government's back.

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Those ink-stained wretches of the Fourth Estate must be feeling even more wretched than usual just lately. Imagine their consternation. After years of neglecting to report the near-daily arrival of boat people at Christmas Island, a new government's policies have reduced the flow to a trickle. So, as card-carrying apologists for the Greens and ALP, what will our leading defenders of the public trust do now? Zeg makes an educated guess.....

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