Rudd and all that jive

OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd has flown to the US to demonstrate his fitness to manage the crucial Australian-American alliance – leaving a lot of unfinished business in his wake.

Rights of fiends protected

IN ANOTHER outstanding victory for the civil rights lobby, two HIV-positive men in Victoria and South Australia were permitted to run wild by health officials, passing on their infection to as many sexual partners as they could, because their right to privacy was deemed paramount.

Brave woman who rose above politics

SOMETIMES one person can make a big difference, as Senator Jeannie Ferris who died in Canberra on Monday, proved.

Hicks is guilty: get over it and accept the truth

THE Left likes to take its information pre-digested, with pre-formed opinions offered by wannabe celebrities. Whether its Al Gore’s hyperbolic disinformation on global warming or a curtain call of aspiring actresses bleating about maggot-free sheep, the fellow travellers prefer the easy intellectual road.

Claims on an empty victory

FORMER NSW premier Bob Carr has taken due credit for the return of the Labor Government, now led by his successor, Morris Iemma.Though Carr was kept under wraps by the Iemma team throughout the election, he told The Australian newspaper of his deep personal satisfaction as successful Labor candidates referred to the millions his government had committed to infrastructure in every seat in their western Sydney electorates.

Biggest loser is NSW electorate

A FOURTH victory for the NSW ALP would be a win for the professional political class and a huge loss for voters across Australia.Premier Morris Iemma and his team offered no bright vision for their state, they had no record of achievement they could point to, but they did use all the political skills they could muster to convince voters that their Conservative opponents posed an even greater risk.

Howard carrying wounds to battle

JOHN Howard may face the biggest challenge of his prime ministership when Federal Parliament resumes today.How he handles Labor’s planned assault on the integrity of the Coalition could well lay the pattern for the election expected in October.

A catalogue of disasters

Less than a week out from the NSW State election and the electorate is in need of anti-depressants.The Galaxy poll conducted in five marginal seats last week for The Daily Telegraph indicates that the Carr-Iemma Labor government will be returned virtually unchanged by disgruntled voters.

Unions crash bridge party

Greens and sanity? That’s a bridge too far

ON THE 75th anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, ask yourself one question: would the NSW Government have built it today?The answer is simple. The current Government’s dismal record on infrastructure has almost certainly ensured that it would NOT be able to raise the funds.Investors are running away from the Labor Government following its appalling handling of the Cross City Tunnel and the Lane Cove Tunnel developments, as worthy as they may be in the long term.Further, now that Premier Morris Iemma has cosied up to the Greens with a sleazy preference swap, one can only imagine the myriad objections the power-peddlers in both the ALP and the Greens would have to creating such a bridge.