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Richard Farmer

Crikey political commentator

Surely an appearance cannot be long away. I was surprised that last week’s Newspoll did not bring it forth. Absolutely stunned that today’s Nielsen failed to flush it out. But surely, surely it cannot be long.

Waiting for the first challenge story of autumn

Surely an appearance cannot be long away. I was surprised that last week’s Newspoll did not bring it forth. Absolutely stunned that today’s Nielsen failed to flush it out. But surely, surely it cannot be long.

The expected speculation about an interest rate cut is underway just as my Crikey colleagues predicted it would be.

Will there be an interest rate cut?

The expected speculation about an interest rate cut is underway just as my Crikey colleagues predicted it would be.

I did not need today's Australian Bureau of Statistics figures to know that  there is a declining number of jobs going in the federal public service.

The public sector jobs black hole

I did not need today's Australian Bureau of Statistics figures to know that there is a declining number of jobs going in the federal public service.

For Kim Beazley all this speculation about US spy drones and Australian islands must be manna from heaven.

Bomber moves to centre stage

For Kim Beazley all this speculation about US spy drones and Australian islands must be manna from heaven.

So the Australian Defence Force is concerned about "the increasingly excessive use of alcohol during Anzac Day commemorations nowadays".

Raising an eyebrow -- and a glass -- to ANZAC Day celebrations

So the Australian Defence Force is concerned about "the increasingly excessive use of alcohol during Anzac Day commemorations nowadays".

Former Premier Peter Beattie wants Julia Gillard to buy a house in Queensland. But what if Queenslanders actually don’t want her?

Queensland a worry for Federal ALP

Former Premier Peter Beattie wants Julia Gillard to buy a house in Queensland. But what if Queenslanders actually don’t want her?

To say anything other than we can’t win would have left Anna Bligh looking quite ridiculous.

Bligh's last desperate appeal

To say anything other than we can’t win would have left Anna Bligh looking quite ridiculous.

Linking the super change with the minerals resource rent tax as the legislation wound its way through the parliament was too clever by half.

Labor's mining tax super con

Linking the super change with the minerals resource rent tax as the legislation wound its way through the parliament was too clever by half.

The can-do Prime Minister Julia Gillard appears happy enough to have got her mining tax legislation through the Parliament but it by no means marks the end of the problems involved in actually getting the planned for money.

Another of those old fashioned states' rights battles

The can-do Prime Minister Julia Gillard appears happy enough to have got her mining tax legislation through the Parliament but it by no means marks the end of the problems involved in actually getting the planned for money.