Post-election, we’ll be heading for a train wreck
IT is a bizarre 2010 election campaign weak on big ideas and heavy on survival politics.
IT is a bizarre 2010 election campaign weak on big ideas and heavy on survival politics.
PROMINENT adviser to the Labor government Ross Garnaut has attacked both Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
THERE are now three leaders in this election campaign.
ONE of the US’s leading strategic thinkers has warned Australia that over the next 30 years, China would seek to dominate Asia.
THIS election marks a new trough in Australian politics with the death of substantive issues and the coalescing of both leaders around the same slogans.
TONY Abbott’s new immigration policy fails on two counts.
THIS was Tony Abbott’s best moment.
JULIA Gillard has learnt nothing from Kevin Rudd’s failure — she tells us the planet is under threat, but she cannot act until a political consensus is reached.
Whatever the PM says, immigration will remain strong while there are jobs to be filled
LABOR’S Sustainable Population position sank into farce yesterday when Julia Gillard contradicted her recent messages by saying this debate was not about immigration levels.
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