Here is the seating plan for the new House of Reps. Can you spot your favourite members of John Howard’s frontbench?
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MacMedia point man moved along following Southern Cross deal
They play it rough at Macquarie Bank, writes Glenn Dyer.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
John Howard has talked up the prospects of an Australian nuclear power industry through much of the year. We might have as many as 25 reactors in Australia, he said, as recently as September 28. And then he stopped…
WHO says kava is safe, Australia bans it
South Pacific producers of kava were delighted this week at the publication of a World Health Organisation report declaring kava to be a safe product although one that should be available on prescriptions and not over the counter in an attempt to better monitor its use and put in place some sort of control.
In praise of Philip ‘Unflappable’ Ruddock
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock is Mr Unflappable. He’s the never ruffled and always quietly spoken back bone of the Howard Government, writes Richard Farmer. When stopping illegal entrants swimming ashore was the foundation of a Coalition election victory, Ruddock was there at John Howard’s side as Immigration Minister. Now he needs him just one more time.
The Economy: Radical reform a red-hot go to end child abuse
This is a watershed. No one can predict the outcome, but failure to act would have been a national disgrace. Indeed, one cannot help observing that the problems in remote Aboriginal townships have been known about for decades — one had only to visit them to see.
