Meaty chunks of political news and commentary from former political operative and Canberra insider Richard Farmer.
Last weekend Julia Gillard said she welcomed debate in Parliament on a code of conduct for members, the introduction of which she promised as part of an agreement with independents that allowed Labor to form government.
For those who can't wait until Monday here's a little federal budget polling preview.
A new document released by the ABS is designed to inform government decision-makers, policy analysts, scientists, industry and other groups on how environmental accounts could be used and further developed in Australia.
Wayne Swan has done his best to stop the rot of declining support for Labor. I very much doubt that it will be enough.
I spent some time going back and looking at the Hansard record of how Julia Gillard has handled over the past few months the allegations about Craig Thomson and his behaviour at the Health Services union.
It is as certain as anything can be that the forecasts underpinning tomorrow's budget will be wrong. The chaos about to engulf Europe will see to that. The government needs to start back tracking on its budget surplus commitment ASAO.
Peter Costello may be gone but he's not forgotten. In fact he's one of only two Australian politicians I spotted in an amusing collection from Russia of international scenes featuring democracies in action. Tony Abbott's tongue was the other featured Aussie.
Listen to the views of the fun police and you would think that Australia has embarked on some new kind of alcohol explosion.
The growing anti-Labor sentiment reflected in recent public opinion polls is sure to be just the beginning. Worse is to come.
I was puzzled last night, as I read the comments after William Bowe posted news on his excellent Poll Bludger blog of the latest Newspoll,.
