Michelle Grattan fires up over MP Scott Morrison’s non-apology for his “insensitive” comments about asylum seekers attending funerals, declaring that Abbott needs to “get back the discipline”, before the Opposition unravels completely.
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Menzies House withdraws attack on Hockey by “senior Coalition staffer”
Conservative thinktank Menzies House has withdrawn a swingeing attack on Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey by a “senior Coalition staffer” that was published on its website last night.
Hockey stands aside from Islamophobia campaign
Scott Morrison’s attempt to exploit the funerals of the Christmas Island victims forms part of a series of attacks on Muslims from sections of the Liberal Party.
Senior Liberal staffer: Hockey must go
Joe Hockey should be forced to leave his position as Shadow Treasurer after he undermined colleague Scott Morrison and manipulated the funerals of asylum seekers for political benefit, writes an anonymous senior Liberal Party staffer.
The Coalition plays Monopoly with the flood recovery package
In its response to the flood recovery package, the Coalition has pursued all the negatives of cutting spending without any of the positives.
Fighting the flood levy
Crikey media wrap: Opposition leader Tony Abbott and his Treasurer Joe Hockey proposed their alternative to the flood levy yesterday: $2.065 billion in cuts from the budget. But have they caused needless damage to the Liberal Party?
Political snippets: A shortage of government debt
I wonder whether shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey will now give a rest to his harping on the horrors of what he describes as excessive government debt?
Bartholomeusz: Swan’s curious credit obsession
It’s peculiar that the nation’s treasurer is obsessed with trying to organise more and cheaper credit even as his central banks tries to do the opposite.
Was it just a bump in the road?
The term “economy” is a misnomer at the moment, because as everyone furiously agrees, there’s not one economy, but a two- or three-speed economy at work. So is yesterday’s GDP number a one-off, a mere “bump in the road?”
Joe versus the banks — the regulation debate devolves into belting CEOs
What started as a debate about regulating systemic banking issues has turned into a game of bash-the-bank-CEO.
Essential: Voters rate Joe on banks, and we want to get closer to China
More of us want to get closer to China than the United States, Essential Research’s new poll shows. And there’s strong support for gay marriage as well.
‘Populist bank-bashing’ gets another endorsement
The G20’s new rules on bank capital and liquidity further strengthen the case for an overhaul of domestic banking regulation.
Let’s play bash the banks
Crikey Media Wrap: Joe Hockey and his “Hockeynomics” proposal calling for tighter banking regulation kicked off an almighty round of bash the banks, and now it seems everybody is joining in.
Mungo MacCallum: For Gillard, banks a perfect opportunity to get on with it
Julia Gillard is there to govern and must be seen to be doing so. To be — how should one put it? — moving forward. Banks may be providing her a perfect opportunity to do so.
Labor doesn’t have the guts to take on the banking cartel
Right on cue, the gouging bastards of the banking cartel are demonstrating exactly what Joe Hockey has been saying. Labor needs to get creative on banking regulation.
Hockey wins big from rate rise
Australian mortgage owners aren’t exactly chuffed by the RBA’s latest interest rate rise, but at least one man would be secretly happy: Joe Hockey. This rise provides a grand finale to his recent round of “Hockeynomics,” writes Lenore Taylor.
Essential: regulate the banks, say voters
Unsurprisingly, voters are dead keen on more banking regulation, according to the latest Essential Report.
Benson: Hockey is arguing like Labor a decade ago
Joe Hockey might not have perfectly articulated his attack on the banks last week, but Labor has no reason not to agree with him. Nearly ten years ago Stephen Conroy and Wayne Swan were arguing for the same thing - but more so, writes Simon Bensen.
ANZ’s Mike Smith is the problem … Hockey is offering solutions
The ANZ’s Mike Smith and Wayne Swan don’t want to acknowledge the reality that Joe Hockey’s banking regulation proposals are anything but “out there”. Just ask the IMF.
Political snippets: Nobody likes NSW Labor
The New South Wales state Labor Government is now being ranked by the pollsters as the most unpopular in polling history.
Hockey proves it doesn’t pay to take policy risks
Yet again serious policy is being overlooked in favour of the media’s obsession with personalities and internal politics. No wonder we have a reform drought.
What we can learn from Monopoly
Recently Julia Gillard and Joe Hockey have made noises about economic reform. For a reminder about the debate’s importance and the need for healthy industry-wide competition look no further than the lessons espoused by a popular board game. No prizes for guessing what it’s called.
Coming to terms with Joe Hockey
The media struggle to untangle two core components of Joe Hockey’s personality: his easygoing and affable personality and his doggedly determined political mindset, writes Nicole Love.
Joe’s formula: resist protectionism, forge reform
Joe Hockey has responded to Julia Gillard’s accusation of “economic Hansonism” by criticizing the government’s record and reiterating his views that marketing failures were caused largely by a lack of competition in the sector, reports David Uren.
Hockey to Labor: get serious about banking reform
Joe Hockey has outlined an ambitious reform agenda for banking regulation. Now over to the Treasurer. That’s you, Swanny.
