Disingenuous


Richardson: Why Rudd didn’t support the GST

John Howard’s attacks on Kevin Rudd’s record as a backbencher were disingenuous because they ignored the way the Australian party system works, writes Charles Richardson.

Exposing the federal and state accounting rorts

Peter Costello was back in the Parliament pushing the big lie yesterday – that the Commonwealth under John Howard “reduced its debt from $96 billion to zero”. In fact, they owe $50 billion, writes Stephen Mayne.

You say AE and I say FME …let’s call the whole thing Medianomics

The economics profession is divided into two tribes, the Academic Economists and Financial Market Economists. And in the media, it’s the latter who dominate — to the public’s detriment, says Humphrey McQueen.

Mitchell was still wrong to discuss Haneef leak with the AFP

Oz editor Chris Mitchell has sound journalistic values – which makes his conduct with AFP chief Bill Keelty all the more surprising and sad.