Meaty chunks of political news and commentary from former political operative and Canberra insider Richard Farmer.
The carbon tax is not the only green scheme that will have an impact on regulated electricity retail prices in the coming year.
I heard an interesting observation on US National Public Radio at the weekend about the negative impact on the presidential image of the president being seen and heard talking too much.
Western economies displayed the same kind of manic behaviour as psychologically disturbed individuals in the run up to the 2008 credit crisis -- and it could happen again
Today's employment report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicates an economy still growing well.
If in politics "it's the economy, stupid" really is the dominant factor determining the standing of a government, how come Labor is travelling so poorly?
The gross domestic product figures out tomorrow seem bound to show an economy growing only modestly.
Any depression reading the papers that I have is surely insignificant compared with what would be the normal human reaction to seeing another of those opinion pollster findings about prime ministerial popularity.
The Prime Minister seems to be investing a lot of faith in a belief that on 1 July that the people will see Tony Abbott as a scare mongering fraud and that Labor's stocks will improve.
Go west young man might be the cry but goodness knows where they are going to sleep when they get there.
I've noted before the importance of petrol prices when it comes to what the opinion polls reflect as public support for the federal government and it is certainly apparent over the last couple of months.
