If you’d heard that East Timor president Jose Ramos Horta had been shot, you’d immediately suspect the hand of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado. Ipso facto. But there’s muddying of the waters in the press and across blogs today, writes Jane Nethercote.
National parliament
Canberra’s shallow gene pool no mirror to the nation
Seventy per cent of Labor’s front bench are – allegedly – former union officials? Well, Parliament as a whole cannot be said to mirror the Australian population. That’s what the Parliamentary Library found in a research note last year, writes Christian Kerr.
