With our heavy reliance on imported capital and trade, Australia goes to the G20 as a supplicant, hopeful that the rest of the world can gets its act together sufficiently to at least arrest the downward economic spiral, writes Bernard Keane.
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Government holds the line on golden handshakes
The rising tide of criticism of executive remuneration has left the Government exposed, writes Bernard Keane.
Latham and the Oz join forces against Rudd
When Mark Latham and The Australian are united as one, there is something downright unholy going on, writes ,b>Bernard Keane.
Estimates schmestimates: Opposition goes soft on the ALP
You get the impression from senior Coalition senators that they’re not prepared to do the hard work of sifting through material and building a case in the search for embarrassing revelations, writes Bernard Keane.
Penny Wong is a cipher for Kevin Rudd
Penny Wong isn’t really to blame for the growing debacle of the Government’s emissions trading scheme plans. She’s a cipher for Kevin Rudd, writes Bernard Keane.
The coalition got it really, really wrong on the financial crisis
Looking at the Essential Report from yesterday — the magnitude of how wrong the Coalition not only got the stimulus package, but the broader GFC starts to become apparent, writes Possum Comitatus.
How Australia can reclaim Rio and embrace the Chinese
Did Nambour High equip Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan to deal with all this at once? asks Stephen Mayne.
Stimulus à la Rudd
The handouts this time are bigger and pitched at an entirely different group, writes Bernard Keane.
Greenies of the world unite
Greenpeace’s Steve Campbell delivers a climate change action call to arms.
This year the cut and thrust of the Budget is for real
This will be the toughest budget to frame since, probably, the recession budgets of the early 1990s, writes Bernard Keane.
Telstra’s too cool broadband bid
Which part of the word “mandatory” doesn’t Telstra understand? Asks Bernard Keane.
Burying the OHS National Harmonisation Agenda
Amidst all this talk of the global economic meltdown, Melbourne Cup and the Obama victory, yet another item on the Rudd Government’s national agenda has been buried, writes Alena Titterton.
Labor’s new federalism shows its first cracks
While the cooperative Labor federalism promised by Kevin Rudd had a relaxed start in late 2007, we’re now seeing the reality of different levels of government with different policy agendas and political needs trying to work together, writes Bernard Keane.
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Rudd government is bad for the arts
By eliminating the Australia on the World Stage program, the Federal Labor Government is ignoring key recommendations from many of their traditionally loyal constituents, writes Nicholas Pickard.
Federalism breakthrough: states say yes to cash
The very first day the PM is back at work the states say yes to $150 million extra cash. So there’s the federation fixed? And end to the blame game? Christian Kerr investigates.
Public servants on a hiding to nothing
You need a pretty thick skin to be a public servant dealing with Aborigines these days as the rape case of the 10 year old Queensland girl illustrates so terribly, writes Richard Farmer.
