As our leaders make their journeys home to practise both speech options and primp their lucky ties for Saturday night, we can reflect more accurately on the freshly sealed campaign track.
Worth noting that
Comitatus: Campaign polling, Round 1
Round one of the campaign polling season is upon on us, with the Coalition starting strongly, the ALP looking mildly bewildered and the minor parties apparently having better things to do, reports Possum Comitatus.
Morgan poll: 18% gap. If Parliament sits, they can have a spill
Here’s a good reason for Parliament to go back next week. Government MPs can bring on leadership spill. They’ve got little to lose, writes Christian Kerr.
PM’s intervention a nightmare for Tasmania
This is a nightmare proposal for Tasmania — and for Australia. The Commonwealth gave up hospitals and handed back the Repatriation hospital years ago because they could not run them, writes a Tasmanian health insider.
Gordon Brown takes on the constitution
Britain’s new Prime Minister Gordon Brown set off an interesting debate this week with his first major statement to the House of Commons, in which he outlined plans for broad constitutional reform.
An emergency, but don’t mention the election
One of the aspects of the Howard emergency that most deserves some dispassionate analysis is the way in which it’s been presented as something ‘above politics’, writes Mark Bahnisch.
The Economy: Financial and economic storm warnings
Warnings about the state of the world economy and financial system come from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - known among the relevant brotherhood as “the central banker’s central bank”.
Good prospects for Coles sale, but no private equity fairytale
While leverage and supply chain improvements may make the purchase of Coles at a price of around $17.00 per share an astute deal, it looks very unlikely to be anything like the private equity fairytale that Myer has become.
