Let me stop pussy-footing around. There will be a Labor leadership change.
Craig Emerson
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West Papua finds a few friends in Canberra
Even if Bob Carr isn’t drafted into the job, most pundits think that Craig Emerson won’t be staying on as foreign minister. Which may be just as well, because he hasn’t exactly covered himself in glory.
Beware of what lurks beneath free trade agreements
The hyping of the Trans-Pacific Partnership has begun. But on some issues it’s cover for a predatorial United States.
Green day: the real architects behind the carbon tax bill
On a reliably frigid Canberra morning holed up in a ramshackle hotel bereft of any kind of heating, the sound of Anthony Albanese seeping out of the clock radio to claim total credit for the passage of the carbon tax seemed too much to bear.
Rundle's ruminations: Labor has neither the brains nor strength to fix its problems
Labor’s leaders would have to be political geniuses to manoeuvre themselves out of the current fix — and they ain’t no geniuses.
Keane: the good and very bad of the Gillard line-up
There are some worthy promotees in the first proper Gillard Ministry, but the plotters have been rewarded.
Business groups jostle for attention of new government
Now the lobbying can begin. That is the message from Australia’s business community, which has welcomed the chance to work with Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s new minority Labor government.
Campaign Crikey Leftovers: Emmo on cucumbers, Libs seek Feedback, marsupial ode
In today’s Campaign Leftovers: Emmo’s portfolio greatly expanded, Libs seek feedback and of all the marsupials …
Political snippets: Don’t mention the war
Another three Australian soldiers dead in an Afghanistan war and you have to wonder where all the peaceniks within the Labor Party have gone to. Plus, bringing back the tick and other political news.
Rudd ducks again: book import slug stays
So we retain parallel import restrictions on books. Those of us who don’t buy our books online will continue to pay too much, with the bulk of that extra cost going to overseas authors and publishers.
Caucus debate misses the point, chapter and verse, on books
What’s happening with parallel book imports? The publishing industry is on the cusp of major change driven by online delivery. The most appropriate role for the government is to step aside and let consumers take the lead.
The rise in independent contracting is a myth
It’s time to declare an end to the alleged rise in “independent contracting” that has purportedly dominated Australian workplaces over the last decade.
Craig Emerson wins QT Idol
Question Time has long been a warped type of talent show and the current stand out performer is Minister for Small Business, Craig Emerson, writes Annabel Crabb.
Political snippets: The Grocery Choice, Emerson connection
Is it a coincidence that the decision to scrap the supermarket price watch came shortly after the Minister for Small Business also became the Minister for Consumer Affairs?
Fran Bailey: the bull in the small business
What does Tourism and Small Business Minister Fran Bailey do when she isn’t living high on the hog and enjoying expensive taxpayer funded junkets overseas? Why, she berates business groups.
Kevin Rudd and his pet parrot, Gloria
Kevin Rudd plans to monitor the activities of the retail duopoly has clearly pleased Alan Jones, but anyone who has read Jonestown will immediately recognise what is going on here. The Parrot is being duchessed.
