The growing anti-Labor sentiment reflected in recent public opinion polls is sure to be just the beginning. Worse is to come.
I was puzzled last night, as I read the comments after William Bowe posted news on his excellent Poll Bludger blog of the latest Newspoll,.
Let me stop pussy-footing around. There will be a Labor leadership change.
I've been watching and waiting for the first Prime Ministerial leadership challenge story of autumn and nearly found it this morning
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development calculates that Australia is among the OECD countries that levy a relatively low tax burden on labour income.
All that effort made by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan to talk the Reserve Bank board into lowering official interest rates was not necessary.
According to the political scientist Shawn W. Rosenberg of the University of California, Irvine, in the face and theTanya Plibersek visage seems to me to tick all the professor's right boxes.
Perhaps Joe Hockey will borrow the next stage of the American Republican solution to economic problems.
Joe Hockey the macho-man, with his comments from Europe overnight, has just given me my first doubt about the inevitability of Labor losing the next election.
If voters are largely unaware of how Australia's greenhouse gas emissions keep rising they are hardly likely to understand why they must start paying more for their own energy use
