The smugness of the Howard years came at a price, writes Mungo MacCallum.
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Horror budgets: a dummy’s guide
Properly managed, a horror Budget can both burnish a new Government’s economic credentials and boost its public standing, writes Bernard Keane.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
The more readily Murdoched portions of the daily press are gunning hard for the Rudd Government over leaks that put sensitive examples of Howard Government largesse under stern razor gang scrutiny. Take money away from pensioners? Shameful. From carers? Disgusting. Or mealy mouthed as Malcolm Turnbull puts it. The Government should just pledge to renew the late term gifts of […]
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John Howard in Washington … Afghan poppy crop … Labor’s razor gang … Gunns and funding … Females and public policy … JFK …
This razor gang might just be a cut above the rest
The warning that carers’ bonuses may be scrapped in the Budget is only the first of what are likely to be a number of razor slash stories between now and Budget night, writes Bernard Keane.
