Rudd is a bit player on the world stage

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd had a short-lived and undistinguished career in the Australian diplomatic service and now we know why. He wasn’t very good at diplomacy and the prospect of working for a Queensland Labor premier, Wayne Goss, obviously seemed vastly more attractive.

Rudd stymied as the barbarians shut the gate

WHEN it comes to trade and diplomacy, China plays with a two-headed penny and has done so for centuries.

Shut the gate and get the truth before the ute bolts

IF PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is seriously concerned about the dignity of the political process, he should endorse Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull’s call for a judicial inquiry into Utegate.

If we wanted kids in Parliament we would have elected them

The Greens have now enlisted a two-year-old child in their latest attempt to downgrade the parliamentary process.

Fawlty Towers Budget has us all $45,000 in the red

FIRST, the great news — straight from Treasurer Eric Roozendaal: “Just two short years and NSW will be back in the black.” Now the bad news — no one believes him.

BBQ led recovery and PM provides the pork

THE ABC covered Deputy PM Julia Gillard’s visit yesterday to a Sydney school with its usual jolly approach. With all of its stars firmly marching to Labor’s tune, why would anyone expect otherwise?

Steve Fielding’s warming to the climate doubters

SAYETH the Bible: “Out of the mouths of babes and Steve Fielding hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.”

Labor’s flawed Budget will prove disastrous

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd famously promised “all good things do come to an end”, as we are being reminded in the ABC’s advertisement for its Tuesday night Budget coverage.

The battle for Currawong has finally taken wing

AFTER years of complacency, Sydneysiders are finally fighting for their beaches.After a 12-year struggle, Northern Beaches residents have finally convinced NSW Planning Minister Kristina Keneally to refuse an application to subdivide the historic Currawong site within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, on Pittwater’s western foreshore.

ABC concocts global warming