While overseas events take on the terrible look of 2008, Australian politicians are locked in a debate about fiscal symbols rather than economic reality.
Stimulus
Labor’s life is in foreign hands …
A gathering economic storm overseas may wreck Labor’s entire political strategy, write Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer.
Everyone’s hoping this was a mere “bump in the road”
It’s in everyone’s interest to explain away today’s weak GDP figure as a one-off — in spite of nagging evidence that the economy outside the mining industry isn’t quite as strong as we’d all like to think.
Life’s a party in Minerals Week, where everyone misses the point
Yeah! Let’s celebrate! It’s Minerals Week and the rent-seekers are in town! W00t! What a deeply depressing place parliament house is this week, swarming with mining executives.
Stevens opens up, and does the Coalition no favours
Glenn Stevens was slightly more expansive than normal yesterday, and the Opposition was the loser.
Koalas vs. The Media
The Truth!
The housing market is holding up. Shock
A striking thing about the flow of statistics this week is the continuing confidence people have in housing, writes Glenn Dyer.
RATED RUDE Aesop’s Fables: The Scorpion and the Frog
As told by first dog on the moon
Just another Tuesday at Parliament House
The Government’s stimuls package arrives…
