WHILE disgraced former Health Services Union official and Labor MP Craig Thomson faces sentencing next month, ordinary Australians have the rare opportunity to make their feelings about this convicted fraudster felt right now.
DESTRUCTION of the Fairfax media brand and what remains of “our” ABC’s reputation continues apace with the vendetta being pursued against Pru Goward, the NSW Family and Community Services (FACS) Minister.
CLIVE Palmer’s buffoonish presence in federal parliament is a continuing indictment of the voters in the Queensland seat of Fairfax. Whatever could they have been thinking last September when they elected the erratic twerker to represent them?
IF TODAY’S budget bonus left Australians feeling a little out of pocket, they will experience real shock when they read the recommendations in Ross Garnaut’s climate change report to be delivered on Friday.
TIME is rapidly running out for the tortured people of Zimbabwe, but the solution to their ongoing tragedy may lie at the feet of South Africa – the host of the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
AUSTRALIA and its allies in the civilised world dismally failed the bleak moral test presented by the murderous dictator Robert Mugabe and his hordes of thugs.
DEPENDING on your politics, George W. Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard were amigo heroes or a demonic gang of three, when they were united in arms at the pointy end of Western democratic politics.
GIVING Japanese car manufacturers millions to build green cars in Australia is the 21st Century equivalent of paying people to paint rocks white.
T had been widely suspected but it is now quite apparent that the Rudd Labor government makes up both policy and process as it goes along, and bad policy and bad process at that.
FIVE years ago, Kevin Rudd sneeringly referred to (erroneous) reports of an Australian troop withdrawal from Iraq as an attempt by then prime minister John Howard at “trying to crab-walk away from its (Australia’s) responsibilities”.
AUSTRALIA is about to see the greatest increase in its migrant population since the post-World War II immigration scheme began.Last week, the Rudd Labor Government announced a lift in permanent and temporary migration for 2008-09 to nearly 300,000, and Immigration Minister Chris Evans has indicated that some of the rules will be eased to ensure those numbers are met.
ON Sunday, I swung the family car into a BP service station on Warringah Road at Forestville to top up the tank.
THERE is no denying that Treasurer Wayne Swan’s first Budget is a Rudd Labor Budget.
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