Too clever by half
ANNOUNCING the election date so far in advance is clever politics but it risks being too clever by half.
ANNOUNCING the election date so far in advance is clever politics but it risks being too clever by half.
THE election year offers little hope of a let-up in personal political attacks.
BLIND partisan voting is getting our nation nowhere.
MALCOLM Turnbull would poll better as leader but doesn’t stand a chance.
STUDENTS are leaving school without adequate writing skills.
NOR does he mind leaving colleagues floundering in the mire.
LABOR MPs feel they were “hung out to dry” by the Treasurer’s announcement the government may not deliver a budget surplus.
THE case for upping the tax, and redistributing it, is powerful.
JULIA Gillard needed to have a poll lead on the Coalition going into the summer break.
FACTIONS aren’t to blame for the mess in which Labor finds itself today in NSW, individuals are.
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