The pursuit of the Prime Minister over the Oceanic Viking made, inter alia, for a rather more interesting Question Time yesterday than we’ve had in some months.
Anthony Albanese 
We need new fast trains … fast.
We are all to blame with our pathetic mimicking of the American arrogant entitlement to drive anywhere we want. But fast rail lines, like those seen in Spain, are exactly what Australia’s public transport system needs.
My shovel’s better than yours: Rudd v Howard on infrastructure
Federal politicians are falling over themselves to claim credit for spending taxpayer’s money on infrastructure, writes Alan Moran. Too bad public projects are never judged with the same rigor as private projects.
Guy Rundle: We don’t need new fast trains, Albo, we need new cities
When it comes to infrastructure, what we need first and foremost are not new rail lines. Not even fast rail lines. What we need are new cities.
Albo gives Howard’s NRL dreams the boot
The SMH reveals how Labor MP Anthony Albanese played a key role in scrapping plans to give former PM John Howard a senior position administering the NRL.
A new Liberal climate position: the Minchin line
Climate change is being used by the Government to wedge the Opposition mercilessly, in far more savage a fashion than John Howard ever managed to do to Labor on refugees or national security.
Inside the inner Rudd sanctum
The design of the parliamentary office of PM Kevin Rudd’s inner circle says much about the power factions of the Rudd government. Mark Davis examines who sits where.
Allan Kessing: my side of the story
After four years, three barristers and over $70,000 wasted I am a convicted felon, writes whistleblower Allan Kessing.
Three out of 10 air traffic controllers equals chaos
There appear to be more media managers and image massagers than Sydney controllers on the AirServices Australia payroll, with only three air traffic controllers available at Sydney Airport yesterday.
VIDEO: Albanese and Pyne go head-to-head on stimulus
The Rudd government is pushing ahead with stimulus, backed by the opinion of the G20. But the Opposition has slammed the economic credentials of the group. This morning Anthony Albanese and Christopher Pyne slogged out the issue.
Tips and rumours: Will Albo’s free kick be an own goal?
Anthony Albanese gets his community offside over fig trees, things hot up in Coober Pedy, Sackwatch news, and more from our tipsters.
One afternoon in Parliament: tables turned on Turnbull
The day began with Treasurer Wayne Swan clinging to the cliff edge of his career. By day’s end he had pulled himself back up, with plenty of help from his Prime Minister.
The Sydney airport capacity kerfuffle
Anthony Albanese’s diligence in getting Access Economics to put Sydney Airport’s 20 year master plan under the microscope points to a policy break point, says Ben Sandilands.
Will members of parliament please grow up?
Our parliamentarians only made it one week into a four-weeks-out-of-five extended session before collectively losing the plot yesterday.
Infrastructure funding plight continues
What Australia got from the federal budget is a list of projects, not a solution to our infrastructure crisis, writes Phillip O’Neill.
All systems go for AFL on the Gold Coast
The AFL’s latest franchise is a success story solely because it has so many things going against it.
The end times are imminent!
What are the 33 and a half signs of the impending Apocalypse?
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.
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Julie Bishop’s gaffes taken to a new level
Even the suggestion of incompetence will be enough to put Julie Bishop under plenty of pressure, when it’s Wayne Swan who should be in the spotlight, writes Bernard Keane.
100 days: the report card
The class of 2008 have begun ther first term bernard Keane has their 100-day progress reports.
Cardboard Kev makes a mockery of flesh Kev’s parliament
We’ve had stunts galore so far from the Government, so the Opposition’s antics on Friday can’t really be faulted, writes Bernard Keane.
QF2 power failure “less serious than first reported”. Really?
The once independent and fearless Australian Transport Safety Bureau has wimped its QF2 investigation, writes Ben Sandilands.
