The risk with Turnbull’s tactics are that they backfire, and create a public impression of an smart-rse, someone who failed to get behind the Government as it tried to manage a global crisis, writes Bernard Keane.
Ken Henry
No one blameless in the Great Bank Guarantee Kerfuffle
The only message reaching people is that the Coalition doesn’t support the Government’s handling of the crisis, and that’s dangerous ground for Malcolm Turnbull, writes Bernard Keane.
Nothing wronger than the Oz when it’s ‘right’
The Oz has joined the Government, the Opposition, and for that matter Ken Henry, in going over the top, writes Bernard Keane.
Ken Henry’s estimates grilling: senatorial wheel spinning
The Coalition came up empty handed in its “grilling” of Treasury Secretary Ken Henry this morning, writes Bernard Keane.
Who is Ken Henry?
Friend of wombats or duplicitous Canberra fatcat public servant?…
“You went too far Malcolm.” Turnbull and the Oz c-ck it up
Turnbull’s Parliamentary skills are still a work in progress, and that his frontbench lacks either the experience or forthrightness to rein him in, writes Bernard Keane.
Treasury head sent deputy to crucial RBA meeting
The minutes of the 5 February Reserve Bank board meeting were missing a normal member: Treasury Secretary Ken Henry, writes Glenn Dyer.
RBA is really targeting John Howard’s spendathon
If ever there was a statement of Reserve Bank independence it was this morning’s effort from governor Glenn Stevens announcing that interest rates were going up by 25 basis points to 6.5 percentage points.
Pork provokes Reserve rates rise risk
And election year. Targeted spending in marginal seats. Warnings from Treasury of bad policy. Meanwhile, at a hospital in a safe Liberal seat …
