ALP factions and fiction at the launch of Jacqueline Kent’s new book, The Making of Julia Gillard, last night. Social butterfly Andrew Crook has the inside scoop.
Lindsay Tanner 
Only one thing worse than losing Opposition leadership: keeping it
Malcolm Turnbull asked a total of seven questions during four Question Times and looked bored and distracted throughout the week.
Govt orders: Don’t ‘buy Australian’
The government won’t encourage consumers to ‘buy Australian’, because a protectionist stance would affect crucial international trade crucial to the Australian economy, writes Lindsay Tanner.
Government 2.0 Taskforce: first a logo design contest
Online collaboration is old hat not just for geeks but for any 14-year-old user of Bebo or MySpace. Only governments are behind the pace.
Business Spectator interrogates Lindsay Tanner
Business Spectator’s Alan Kohler, Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz probe Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner.
Unions trade member interests for seats and influence
The revelations over the ABCC do little to explain the broader labour movement’s continuing counter-productive closeness to its lackeys in the ALP.
Essay: Rudd’s NBN recalls the day Billy Hughes went wireless
Nearly ninety years ago, prime minister Billy Hughes announced a public private partnership to construct a nation-building communications network. Sound familiar? Jock Given writes.
The ugliest Budget in decades way behind schedule
The Budget process is significantly behind schedule, according to sources in the Canberra bureaucracy, delayed by the continuing collapse in revenue projections and the need to find all possible savings, writes Bernard Keane.
Designer and enfant terrible from the House of Cat, Jasper has been invited to Chanel…
Mosieur le Chat du Premier Ministre!
Meeja annoints Tanner Treasurer
If you believe the nation’s broadsheets, Lindsay Tanner should have inherited the keys to the economy long ago, writes Andrew Crook.
Costello rising: Labor braces for an early election
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Liberal Party has decided to drop Malcolm Turnbull and recall Peter Costello to lead them at the next federal election, writes Alex Mitchell.
This year the cut and thrust of the Budget is for real
This will be the toughest budget to frame since, probably, the recession budgets of the early 1990s, writes Bernard Keane.
Operation Sunlight: lifting the lid on government transparency
The Rudd Government continues to make significant progress in increasing governmental transparency and accountability, writes Bernard Keane.
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Who owns what and whom?
Happy Kruddiversary: as good as it gets
Within Kevin Rudd, there’s still the little kid from Nambour who almost can’t believe he’s running the country, writes Bernard Keane.
A deficit might be the most decisive thing
The current word games and debates about whether the Government will have the courage to plunge into the red are rather misleading, writes Bernard Keane.
Death to working families: Rudd gets decisive
The target of the Government’s keyword tactic is the voter who probably doesn’t read a newspaper, writes Bernard Keane.
The fiscal massacre that laid the Rudd agenda to rest
Turns out we missed the opportunity to invest the proceeds of the mining boom and we’ll have to wait until the Rise of China and India Part II reaches these shores several years hence, writes Bernard Keane.
Banks dig in over RBA cut
The refusal of the banks to pass on the full cut is simple gouging, writes Bernard Keane.
Can we trust the ABS’s job numbers any longer?
The job numbers for July are in and they raise more questions than they answer, writes Glenn Dyer.
Kohler: The Budget that Tanner built
Remarkably, the Finance Minister has found $2 billion more in savings than Swan and Rudd are spending, writes Alan Kohler.
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Memo finance minister: War on drugs is all cost, no benefit
Drug law enforcement is throwing good money after bad, writes Dr Alex Wodak.
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.
