It’s never the event – always the cover ups

Items still being posted. The author is having a Simon and Garfunkel inspired delayed start. The concert was great but recovery gets more difficult as the years advance.

POLITICS AND ECONOMICS

Australia

Ute gate

Rudd swerves on car scandal - Sydney Morning Herald

Rudd’s adviser ‘unable to sleep’ - The Australian

Car dealer grateful, even though he got no financial help - Melbourne Age

Heat turns on to Swan - Melbourne Age

Auditor to lean on OzCar witnesses - The Australian

Turnbull, Swan set for showdown over Utegate email - Brisbane Courier Mail

Public servant ‘an ill man’- The Australian

Swan denies doing any special deals over ute - Sydney Morning Herald

How Utegate began with my call to Ford Credit’s Greg Cohen - Steve Lewis gives some detail in the Sydney Daily Telegraph on how his story developed

Private man Godwin Grech at centre of Utegate storm - Sydney Daily Telegraph

Showdown on ute affair - The Australian

Interest rates

Official interest rate more likely to fall - Ross Gittins predicts in the Sydney Morning Herald

Strange things

AFP to launch full probe into banknote firm - part owned by the Reserve Bank - Melbourne Age

Education

School principals do the sums on wasteful system - Sydney Morning Herald

Schools are failing us, says Gillard - Sydney Morning Herald

Political life

Anger over grab for developer cash - Sydney Morning Herald

Logan Mayor Pam Parker ‘rules like the Queen’ - Brisbane Courier Mail

Anna Bligh rejects liar tag - Brisbane Courier Mail

Health

Minister ignoring advice - ambos - Melbourne Herald Sun

Opinion

There’s no such thing as a free ute; now someone will have to pay for it - Phillip Coorey in the Sydney Morning Herald

The bruiser, the boof and the bore - Paul Sheehan writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about Christopher Pyne - the member for Skirt

Vital time for Australia’s three most senior politicians - says the Sydney /daily Telegraph editorial

Why Swan’s explanation adds fuel to Utegate fire - says Peter van Onselen in the Brisbane Courier Mail

BUSINESS

Huge resource merger in the air - mining group Xstrata has approached rival Anglo American about a £41 billion ($84billion) merger that would create one of the world’s biggest resource companies. - Sydney Morning Herald