When politicians are reduced to appealing to the electorate for a sympathy vote to stop the other lot winning by too much then desperation has well and truly set in.
The Times Higher Education has just released its assessment of the reputation of the world's universities and three Australian institutions have made the top 50.
Crikey is offering two ways to test your political skills with Queensland election contests.
I wonder if this is the kind of message James Packer expected to be promoting?
Getting us ready for the giant asterisk. Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey is getting in early with his pre-election propaganda. This morning he was on the telly with talk of the commission of experts he will appoint on taking over the real job in charge of the nation’s finances. Their job will be to find the […]
A glance at the graphs below is enough to show that trend figures give a more helpful idea of what is happening on the jobs front
The economic divide between the major mining areas and the rest of the country could not be better illustrated than in the gross domestic product.
Anna Bligh surely reached a new level of the art with her weekend announcement of free swimming lessons for her state's children if she is returned to office.
You could hardly say that the Australian economy is bounding along.
As the Russian election campaign reaches its dying days Vladimir Putin has claimed that his opponents plan to kill one of their own so they can blame it on him
