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Crikey readers talk the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott and the reliability of Israeli intelligence sources.

As Labor begins the process of defusing carbon tax and asylum seeker policy as election issues, Tony Abbott’s task will become increasingly painful. Does Labor improve from here?

Real reform of the ALP must focus on giving people good reasons to join and stay in the ALP, writes John Lannan, a candidate for the federal presidency of the ALP.

Even for tax policy fanatics it’s hard to get excited about the two-day tax forum. Given Labor’s failure to adopt the Henry tax review, the prospect of meaningful change is slim, says Adam Creighton.

On Wayne Swan’s economic recovery legacy, the BER wasn’t all good news. Its short-term job-creating impact throws the economy out of whack in the longer term.

Another Labor Party review? All that’s missing, says Guy Rundle, is a response to the core question: why would anyone join Labor now in the first place?

Multiculturalism is not a failed idea, says former PM Malcolm Fraser. He welcomes Labor’s re-embrace, but in this piece for Crikey he condemns his former Liberal Party for creating a climate of fear on the issue.

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.

The rising tide of criticism of executive remuneration has left the Government exposed, writes Bernard Keane.

When Mark Latham and The Australian are united as one, there is something downright unholy going on, writes ,b>Bernard Keane.

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 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.

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.

Did Nambour High equip Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan to deal with all this at once? asks Stephen Mayne.

The handouts this time are bigger and pitched at an entirely different group, writes Bernard Keane.

Greenpeace’s Steve Campbell delivers a climate change action call to arms.

This will be the toughest budget to frame since, probably, the recession budgets of the early 1990s, writes Bernard Keane.

Which part of the word “mandatory” doesn’t Telstra understand? Asks Bernard Keane.