The employment revival has gone into pause mode.
Joe Ludwig
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Fair exchange? Trashing Labor’s credibility on ads earns it … 14 days
The government should refer its RSPT campaign to its advertising committee regardless of any “exemption”. Meanwhile, the lies of the anti-RSPT campaign continue.
What would Faulkner do?
John Faulkner’s shift to Defence was a turning point in this Government’s approach to accountability. The government has been backsliding ever since Joe Ludwig replaced him, writes Bernard Keane.
Kicked out of Community Cabinet, Crikey style
Comfort women, childrens’ sun hats, the Macksville Bridge, koala colonies and television for the blind. These were the sorts of questions asked at last night’s Community Cabinet, held in the assembly hall at Sydney’s Epping Boys High School.
Government ad campaigns to face more scrutiny
Government advertising will now be reviewed independently following a review, hopefully providing more scrutiny than the Auditor-General was ever able to, writes Stephen Bartos.
Joe Ludwig’s dad shows the real campaign finance agenda
The Australian went back over a decade of returns from Labor Holdings Pty Ltd and concluded that this secretive Queensland investment arm has pumped $25 million into the ALP’s federal and state campaigns since 2000.
FOI reform may undermine open government
Expect some drama as the Freedom of Information reform Bill is debated in federal parliament, since an amendment that would fatally undermine the move to more open government has been slipped in.
300,000 disenfranchised by our voting system
The government does seem to make an effort to elicit actual discussion in their government papers, and the new Electoral Reform Green Paper is a perfect example.








