Chris pearce


Ripoll’s halfway house on shonks and spivs

Bernie Ripoll has produced a bipartisan report from the Financial Services inquiry into the Storm and Opes collapses, and it shows, writes Bernard Keane.

Do the Coalition shuffle!

Whatever happened to the Coalition reshuffle? Remember that? But reshuffles create losers and Malcolm Turnbull, who is one major brain explosion away from losing the leadership, has enough enemies as things stand.

Labor’s super reforms have only just begun

Chris Bowen has made it clear he regards superannuation as one of the great Labor reforms, and one that can be wielded effectively against the Coalition.

Termination payouts: government policy simply makes sense

The federal government introduced a Bill seeking to limit executive termination payments to one year’s fixed salary. But in a move that’s commercially, morally and politically indefensible, the Libs have opposed it.

The first rule of Coalition Fight Club

Alby Schultz Vs. Chris Pearce — Annabel Crabb is ringside with a blow-by-blow account of the action.

How Rudd saved Nelson from the Coalition of the Irreconcilable

Yesterday, Kevin Rudd rescued Brendan Nelson the person, from being suffocated under the polarising burden of being Brendan Nelson the Leader of the Coalition, writes Possum Comitatus.