Meaty chunks of political news and commentary from former political operative and Canberra insider Richard Farmer.
Australia's GDP continues to make a stunningly good contrast to most of the rest of the developed world.
Up in Darwin the political chiefs of the Liberal Country Party are wielding the hatchet to bring about peace by exterminating unfriendly public servants.
In theory what one government legislates today a future government can repeal some time in the future.
A couple of opinion polls showing a slight improvement for Labor and it is possible to detect an increasing media scrutiny, albeit also only a slight one, in the performance of Tony Abbott.
Housing the homeless, I recall, was going to be one of the promised achievements of a Labor government when Kevin 07 was making the promises.
Perhaps the promised budget surplus for this financial year will be the next thing jettisoned.
So Bill Shorten is doing it tough on his $330,000 a year. The poor fellow.
There's one thing we can say about the weekend's defeat of a Labor government in the Northern Territory--- the decline in the Labor brand continues.
The internet has brought defamatory publication within the reach of all and sundry and the civil threat of monetary damages does not apply when the publisher has no assets to take away.
So Clive Palmer is not coming to Canberra as a politician.
