Enough Canberra circus, on with the Wall Street crisis
Brendan and Malcolm have provided a nice little distraction, but it’s time to look at other world news: to wit, another US financial giant has hit the deck (two, if you count the takeover of Merrill Lynch as well as [...]
Links post: Why the Labor leadership change shows our political system is broken
By Mark Bahnisch on June 26, 2010
In my article in The Drum on Kevin Rudd’s political execution, I wrote: … we must now ask ourselves whether politics as usual allows any leader to wrestle with the great moral challenges of our time. Because those challenges are [...]
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