If WorkChoices is dead, Julie Bishop is Dr Frankenstein. She’s got the corpse on a table and is going to keep working feverishly until new life flows through its cold, hard veins, writes David macCormack.
Federal liberals
Mungo: Nelson should just say yes to saying sorry
After ten long years the federal Liberals are still dithering over whether to be part of a formal apology to the stolen generation of indigenous Australians. They have learned nothing; but apparently they have forgotten just about everything, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Political donations: Gems aplenty in the annual deluge
There are literally dozens of fascinating stories in today’s deluge of political donations figures for the 2006-07 financial year, writes Stephen Mayne.
Who’d want to be a state Liberal leader?
It was barely noticed amid the death throes of the Howard government, but 11 October last year was a significant anniversary: ten years since the Liberal Party last won a state election. Rarely has a major political party endured such a run of failures, writes Charles Richardson.
