All lovers of quality political spin should go out right now and buy, or preferably steal, today’s edition of The Australian. It’s a keeper, writes David MacCormack.
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Victoria police: a force in leaderless shambles
Victoria Police command has imploded. This was always a collapse that was waiting to happen, write Greg Barns and Peter Faris.
MacCormack: Making rabbit stew with Haneef and Abbott
Another day, another poll, another massive lead to the ALP. You can almost hear the sighs of frustration from the media – and not just at The Australian, writes David MacCormack.
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Flint on Howard: the Geoff Boycott of politics … the Beattie resignation … nixing the CDEP … Howard’s aspirationalism … worth a bet … St Janet of Albrechtsen …
Andrew Murray: What to do with the surplus?
From a forecasting perspective it is a poor show when a Government gets the surplus so badly wrong just three months after the budget, but they are serial offendors on this front, so none of us are surprised, writes Senator Andrew Murray.
$17billion of our money, p-ssed up against the wall
One question the media are unlikely to ask about Peter Costello’s revelation of a $17.3b surplus for 2006-07 is what right does a government have to rip that much money out of taxpayers with nothing to show for it?
