Meaty chunks of political news and commentary from former political operative and Canberra insider Richard Farmer.
I suppose it’s cheap really. Hand over a few thousands for an ad and get the bonus of a page one lead.
This morning’s March figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show the Australian economy is growing just fast enough to cope with increases in the workforce.
A cautionary little graph from the OECD overnight as the federal government enters the final stages of its budget preparations.
Labor is clearly relying on the Reserve Bank to be its political saviour.
The ACTU certainly took its time to wake up to the damage being done to the whole trade union movement
Not publicly releasing the report by Fair Work Australia into financial shenanigans at the Hospital Services Union is a wonderful result for the federal Opposition.
In my search for the first of the season came this from AAP yesterday afternoon...
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.
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.
