THIS is the week Australian politics entered the surreal: when Godwin Grech revealed his entrapment of the opposition, a gobsmacked Malcolm Turnbull said the saga was “almost beyond belief” and confessed regret at ever meeting Grech, and when the political media turned on Turnbull for failing to assume a Uriah Heep humility.
KEVIN Rudd’s recovery plan of a decade of public-sector led nation building suggests he will not use the recession to reform.
IN an aggressive analysis, Liberal spokesman Tony Abbott calls on the party to embrace greater powers for the national government.
MALCOLM Turnbull’s political future turns on whether he can get the Libs to support emissions trading.
PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s historic speech to the Muslim world will seek to shift the strategic calculations of Islamic and Arab leaders.
THE budget strategy’s communications problem is the political spin nursed by the Rudd Government to the point of addiction.
IF Malcolm Turnbull provides Kevin Rudd with a trigger, he will be shooting the Opposition in the foot.
DEBT and deficit will dominate politics for the foreseeable future, as Labor fights to survive and the Liberals run on familiar policy.
THIS budget is a portrait of an optimist in the middle of a nightmare.
KEVIN Rudd has decided to press ahead with his initiative for a new Asia-Pacific community based on an interim report.
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