The tax men of federal, state and local government collected a total of $357.9 billion in 2010-11.
So the ALP is hoping that the retirement of Bob Brown as parliamentary leader of the Greens will give them the chance to claw back votes from those nasty lefties.
I suppose it’s cheap really. Hand over a few thousands for an ad and get the bonus of a page one lead.
This morning’s March figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the Australian economy is growing just fast enough to cope with increases in the workforce.
A cautionary little graph from the OECD overnight as the federal government enters the final stages of its budget preparations.
Labor is clearly relying on the Reserve Bank to be its political saviour.
The ACTU certainly took its time to wake up to the damage being done to the whole trade union movement
Not publicly releasing the report by Fair Work Australia into financial shenanigans at the Hospital Services Union is a wonderful result for the federal Opposition.
It comes as a bit of a shock when you actually see the figures: the Chinese wine industry has nearly three times more area under vines than Australia.
In my search for the first of the season came this from AAP yesterday afternoon...
