Is the stimulus package actually any good? Are we getting the most stimulation for our borrowing? Bernard Keane investigates.
February, 2009
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Today’s headlines about the headline makers.
The Marcellin College database debacle
A “human error” last month saw the personal details of over 6000 former Marcellin College students published online, writes Eleri Harris.
Pell sounds the death knell for rebel parish
Even though he has no formal authority over the issue, comments yesterday by Cardinal George Pell must surely sound the death knell for the rebel Catholic parish in Brisbane that is under the threat of excommunication from the church, writes Jeff Wall.
What Jaspan said to Jon
Former Age editor Andrew Jaspan returned to the public eye yesterday morning, writes Margaret Simons.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government by Richard Farmer.
Botany Bay’s car park protesters gagged
Sydney’s Rockdale Council will stop at nothing to build a 100-vehicle car park on the foreshores of Botany Bay, writes Alex Mitchell.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
The Stimulus: From Rudd to Turnbull to Whitlam … Climate change (part MCXIII) … more Burchett …
Writing’s on the wall for Rupert
With Rupert Murdoch back in Oz to spruik News Corporation’s first half results, two of his company’s major rivals have reported big falls in sales, writes Glenn Dyer.
Last night’s TV ratings
The Winners … The Losers … News & CA … The Stats … Glenn Dyer’s comments.
Stimulus: what you’d get, when you’d get it and how
No doubt everyone has been madly trying to calculate how much they’ll get if the Nation Building and Jobs Plan is passed. There has been some confusion, so here it is plain and simple, writes Chris Paver.
ACMA whacks Nine over Underbelly and Ramsay’s potty mouth
The media regulator ACMA has given Nine a big whack over the rating of Underbelly and Gordon Ramsay eps from last year, ahead of the new series of both programs airing from next week, reports Glenn Dyer.
Comitatus: Economic Security Package worked. Shock.
The $10.4 billion Economic Security Package not only worked, but worked nearly exactly as Treasury had forecast it would, writes Possum Comitatus
Dyer’s business wrap: Glee turns to gall on Wall St
An early whiff of economic joy overnight was quickly dashed when a more convincing trigger failed to eventuate, writes Glenn Dyer.
Frank Lowy should cut his own pay
After a year of staying above the fray of the collapsing commercial property market, reality has caught up with Westfield, writes Adam Schwab.
Liberals a rabble on a fool’s errand
By opposing the package, Malcolm Turnbull has dramatically increased the chances he will flame out in the polls this year, writes Bernard Keane.
Streamlining policy analysis for government in tough times
Providing an online system for policy analysis could considerably cut government costs, writes Tom Worthington.
Turnbull’s stimulus suicide
Refusing to back the Government’s stimulus package is a truly colossal error by the Opposition, writes Bernard Keane.
A plea for peace in the maternity turf wars
A knee-jerk separatist turf war is unhelpful for women, midwives, obstetricians and the health system, writes Caroline Homer.
Cox: Rudd’s sexist, moralistic stimulus package
Rudd’s sexist, moralistic, mean payments will send all the wrong messages, writes Eva Cox.
Mayne: Rudd the reckless Whitlamite
Kevin Rudd is certainly imperilling his government by embarking on an extraordinarily reckless policy prescription, writes Stephen Mayne.
Michael Phelps’s “gotcha” moment is a drug lesson for our kids
The message young people are getting is that drugs are cool, Gemma Thompson was unlucky and that Colin Barnett is a goose, writes Duncan Fine.
Crikey Says: Crikey says
Mr Turnbull will be hoping that his polling figures don’t show a similar inclination to the downward vertical on the back of this morning’s “brave” stand.
