Piers Akerman
Julia’s deal shakes faith
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard seems hell-bent on trashing the Westminster concept of parliamentary democracy before her government’s first sitting day.
ALP brand ruined by a bunch of Mad Men
Rudd caught in a devious rat trap of his own design
INVITATIONS to meet Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinpeng in Canberra this weekend were telephoned just yesterday to leading Australian business figures with China-related interests.
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Confused child is father to the man
OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd is an ultra-cautious politician but in claiming heart-rending memories of childhood dispossession, he may have shot himself in the foot.
Canberra sheep follow Stanhope
THE depression Canberra sits in was a sheep station before being approved as the site for the nation’s capital in 1911.The area is now economically, as well as geographically, depressed, and the fact that the left-leaning residents of the People’s Republic of Canberra have twice elected Chief Minister Jon Stanhope’s ALP Government demonstrates that sheep still rule on the banks of the Molonglo.Though Canberrans point to statistics showing they are better educated and better paid than most Australians, their embrace of Stanhope shows they have less commonsense.Canberrans have shown extraordinary tolerance towards Stanhope and the controversy and scandal that have dogged his administration.They are proof that learning and intelligence are distinctly separate and should not be confused.
Ruined general may still swing a sword
DESPITE NSW Premier Morris Iemma’s hangdog expression, the ALP are not the underdogs in this month’s state election.
Voters lose to ALP celebs
LABOR’S habit of recruiting candidates with no local knowledge is bad news for the constituency.
Rudd’s poor business case
FEDERAL Opposition leader Kevin Rudd has seized on Sir Rod Eddington to mend the fences with a business community trashed by former leader Mark Latham.
Political makeweights
EDDIE McGuire and so-called reality TV shows such as Big Brother may think they’re responsible for creating the idiot-celebrity genre, but politics must own that distinction.
Joke government in a state of weakness
THE Carr-Iemma Government can claim one achievement – it has managed to turn NSW into the punchline for jokes about the Australian states.
Radical plan for pain
THE radical Islamists of Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) who met in Lakemba to cheer speakers calling for a global Islamic state, which somehow did not include Australia, raised a number of issues.
Flag issue fails to fly
TO the utter chagrin of self-described progressives, Australia Day was celebrated uneventfully around the nation.
Rudd’s trial on two fronts
A BASIC tenet in the art of war warns against fighting on two fronts – think of the Germans in World War II facing the Russians on the Eastern front and the other Allies on the Western front.
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