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Anthony Albanese 
The sorry business of saying sorry
Tomorrow, at around nine o’clock, the Prime Minister will rise to his feet in the House of Representatives to put a motion offering an apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples. The formal process of saying sorry will be underway. The Leader of the House, Anthony Albanese, though, says an Indigenous representative will not be able to respond. Christian Kerr asks why?
Infrastructure Australia could come back to haunt Rudd
The Rudd government’s new body for pipes and wires and roads and rails, Infrastructure Australia, may not look like such a clever move down the track, writes David MacCormack.
Labor to extend parliament sittings but will it matter?
So, parliament is going to sit five days a week, says the new Labor government. The manager of government business, Anthony Albanese, says this unprecedented move is in the interests of greater accountability and scrutiny. But will this really be the case? Norman Abjorensen investigates.
Kevin11 or Maxine14?
The federal parliamentary sitting schedule for 2008 is out. It’s never too early to think of the next election, and now we have a sitting schedule we can start plotting dates, writes Christian Kerr.
A second Sydney airport back on the cards
So where will the Rudd government put a second airport for Sydney? The Minister for Infrastructure, Anthony Albanese, says plans for one will be “revived” but it won’t be at Badgerys Creek, writes Ben Sandilands.
Labor elusive on the Exclusive Brethren?
Kevin Rudd calls the Exclusive Brethren an “extremist cult”. Yet last week it was reported that the opposition leader wrote a gushing letter in May to the principal of the Brethren-run Agnew School in the suburb of Norman Park, in his own electorate.
Tips and rumours
Howard’s plan to end?: The scuttlebutt around the traps in areas that should know is that there are already explicit signals that the NT “emergency response” will be “pulled out” within six to 12 months… so much for serious policy.
A Scotland Yard mystery: The high level police woman from Scotland Yard who was flown here, […]
Same s-x action from the government
In the wake of High Court judge Michael Kirby’s request for Attorney-General Philip Ruddock to change judicial pension arrangements for same-sex couples, representatives of three gay rights groups met one of Prime Minister John Howard’s senior advisers in Canberra yesterday.
The return of the dirt aNiMaLS
The hypocrisy of politicians is wonderful to behold. There was Labor in the House of Representatives this week attacking the Liberal-National government for having employees of ministers monitor the media to find information with which to embarrass their opponents.
