The Cabinet leaks keep coming: Now it’s the Fair Work Act
… Now Robert Gottliebsen at Business Spectator has one. The thrust of this allegation is that Julia Gillard produced a very business friendly draft of the Fair Work Act, and Greg Combet and Kevin Rudd intervened to make it more [...]
Turnbull's turn
I’m not sure if the anniversary has been celebrated, but it’s just over six months since Malcolm Turnbull became Leader of the Opposition. At the time, I suggested that he needed to junk the obsession with the Howard legacy, and [...]
Too early to tell
Crikey’s Eric Beecher was quoted in this Sally Jackson piece as saying online media will not be able to bridge the quality gap that’s being created by the long emergency we’re seeing in the usual MSM outlets. Mr Beecher warned [...]




The Liberals' two hour strategy
By Mark Bahnisch on September 11, 2009
In discussing Joe Hockey’s latest musings on the need for tens of billions of dollars of spending cuts yesterday, I wondered whether the Libs had conceded the next election, and were trying to position themselves for the one after. I [...]
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