Meaty chunks of political news and commentary from former political operative and Canberra insider Richard Farmer.
The election season is almost upon us thanks to that wonderful way the United States has of choosing its candidates.
Chinese officials have just finished their annual economic talkfest known as the Central Economic Work Conference with a commitment not to allow global uncertainties to disrupt what it called "relatively fast growth."
The Westpac/Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment is a fitting signal for what has been an unhappy year for the Federal Government.
Australia now has the largest sized Cabinet in history while Miss Gillard has a couple more colleagues she cannot count on if and when there is a leadership challenge.
So now we are going to have a new international body -- the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action.
One of the consistent claims of the United States oil shale gas industry and its method of production involving "fracturing" has been "we’ve never had one confirmed case of groundwater contamination." Well, that is a claim that can be made no longer.
Yesterday's gross domestic product figures show there is no problem in Australia at the moment about economic growth.
Gross domestic product figures out this morning give no support at all to those who attacked Treasurer Wayne Swan for being too optimistic last week with his revised growth forecasts.
The eagle eye of my colleague Glenn Dyer noticed this little report in The Sydney Morning Herald: "News Corp takes Tax Office to task over $2b losses".
It seems to be the political orthodoxy in most developed country democracies these days that government spending must be cut to produce budgets that balance.
