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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Cardinal Pell’s climate sceptic pals
Cardinal George Pell makes friends with climate sceptics, the SMH’s new A-group, a conspiracy theory about the Bondi caveman, and is Christopher Pyne eying the leadership?
Opposition makes public the losers
The Opposition politicians are lazy and don’t provide a clear political alternative. Instead their main aim is oppose everything: even things that will come back to bite them later, writes Alister Drysdale.
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.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, Julia
Education Minister Julia Gillard was under fire for overspending A$1.5 billion in the school buildings project and she came out guns blazing in parliament. For once, the voice of reason was Wilson Tuckey.
School signs, spin and other half-smart Ruddy capers
The Government’s proclivity for spin and half-smart political strategy is re-emerging, with its signs-in-front-of-schools plan and attempts to sell award modernisation.
Gillard finally hits a bump in the road
The stimulus schools building blow out has taken some of the shine off Julia Gillard’s halo. The pollie being touted as the PM-in-waiting shouldn’t have been put up on a pedestal, writes Laurie Oakes.
Criticism for school signs plan
The government is extracting every political mileage out of their school infrastructure program possible, with schools forced to place government advertising signs outside new buildings until 2011.
The Coalition’s alternative emissions trading scheme is dead.
Long live the Coalition’s alternative emissions trading scheme!
