Let’s not egg on lobbyists this Easter
WITH ICAC sniffing around, I have to get something off my chest. It’s Easter, traditionally the time for renewal, so here goes.
Piers Akerman
Abbott has made his Budget bed – and now he has to lie in it
IR will damage the opposition
The federal Budget was delivered last Tuesday but the real political milestone was passed on Thursday and it was not during Opposition leader Kevin Rudd’s lacklustre address-in-reply.The telling moments occurred in Question Time when Rudd attempted to quote Prime Minister John Howard and found he wasn’t quite sure what Howard had said, and when Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey enumerated Labor’s IR backflips
No discom-Bob-ulation here
BOB “Bridget” Carr has written the political comic of the year. His Diary Of A Foreign Minister will probably never sell as many copies as John Howard’s best-selling biography Lazarus Rising but it will certainly win the prize for historical revisionism, egotism and wackiness.
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PM’s asylum insanity softens our borders
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Kernot’s ex chequered path to the chancellor
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Anger simmers in paradise lost – Life on Christmas Island
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Victoria drive leaves NSW swinging in the wind
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Rivers scandal a blight on Bligh
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Fix NRL’s problems first, then choose a leader
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