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.
Piers Akerman
Answers needed on coal seam gas
Australians have every reason to be grateful to the mining industry. At the moment, it is the only thing protecting us from following Europe and the US down the economic drain. But in recent months landholders up and down the East Coast of the nation have been confronted with a huge increase in exploration claims lodged by coal seam gas companies wanting to ride the green friendly anti-coal band waggon and exploit the rich gas fields that lie deep below the earth.
Sick to the back teeth of Gillard’s leadership
A YEAR marked by failure is drawing to a close for Prime Minister Julia Gillard. But, as the polls show, there are still some people who believe the Gillard-Green-independent minority government has been a success.
Education systems need hard lesson
THE feral critics of federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne made one simple but seriously-flawed assumption when they attempted to savage him over the former Labor government’s terminally damaged Gonski education reform.
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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.
El-Hillary’s politics of delusion
THE announcement from Lakemba’s ranting sheik Sheik Taj el-Dene Elhilaly that he plans to run or endorse candidates for NSW state seats at the March 24 election, and from former US first lady Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that she is running for president in the 2008 race, give new dimension to celebrity candidatures.
Spewers of hate run free
ONLY a society with a sincere death wish could entertain an individual, let alone a group, which preaches vile hatred toward others and urges parents to school their children in martyrdom.
Bob Carr plays politics with water
SYDNEY’S water supply is now at perilously low levels but a plan which has the potential to ease the risk has been endangered by former NSW premier Bob Carr’s reluctance to give up politics.
Zero-tolerance approach to crime is the answer
OUR streets are out of control and will only degenerate further unless a zero-tolerance approach to crime is adopted.
Hicks sought more than thrills
OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd needs to take a crash course in political management if he wants to project an aura of credibility into the next federal election.
Proud of world-class poisonous behaviour
BEST-selling author Bill Bryson wrote in his hugely popular book on Australia that there are more things here that will kill you than anywhere else.
Crikey founder dumped
Open hand met with contempt
CABINET documents from 1976 reveal then prime minister Malcolm Fraser ignored warnings about accepting Lebanese Muslim refugees deemed unlikely to have the qualities required for successful integration.
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