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What is the longest promised rail system in Australia? 27 Aug 2013 | 10:04 am
Kevin Rudd announced yesterday that he would build a very fast train between Melbourne and Brisbane by 2035. As the idea first surfaced in 1984, it would be a promise 61 years in the honouring. He mus...
Winning the war, not the battle 22 Aug 2013 | 05:41 am
Lily Fontana is currently getting a crash course in public relations and social media. She is the freelance make-up artist whose status update on Facebook has provided the most succinct commentary on ...
Nothing you could say would change my mind 18 Aug 2013 | 07:22 am
Unless things pick up this will be a disastrous election for TV stations. In elections not only do they have to spend a lot more covering politics than normal, but this is generally at least partly of...
Future of the NT is Switzerland 15 Aug 2013 | 11:09 am
It appears that Kevin Rudd’s industry of the future might very well be shelf-company manufacture in the Northern Territory. Adopting a suggestion from Gina Reinhardt, Rudd has promised to make the NT ...
Why Abbott won the debate 12 Aug 2013 | 03:36 am
Immediately after last night’s debate I scored it a draw. Rudd was more fluent and less reliable, Abbott more wooden, but more “fair dinkum”. Others scored it a win to Abbott, including even the SMH o...
Get “new” on interest rates 7 Aug 2013 | 03:29 am
If money is the life-blood of the economy interest rates are its blood pressure. And if the analogy holds, which it does this far, rates can both be too high and too low. The risks are also similar. T...
K stands for Kleptocrat 1 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
K Rudd’s tax raid on smokers is an interesting exercise in smash and grab economics. It affects traditional Labor voters more than anyone else, but is likely to be meekly accepted, or wildly acclaimed...
ABC methane madness flouts reality 29 Jul 2013 | 06:21 pm
The ABC has been running alarmist reports from a Nature paper that suggests methane released from the Arctic permafrost could cause $60 trillion worth of damage to the economy. I’m watching Emma Albe...
Is Rudd “redux” or “van Winkle”? 26 Jul 2013 | 09:49 am
When the Ruddbot was at his zenith it was a different world. Those were the days before the GFC, or in its near aftermath, when we still hadn’t realised that the party wasn’t going to go on forever. A...
We are not tax cheats 23 Jul 2013 | 06:15 pm
I have a confession. My car is salary packaged. And I don’t feel guilty about that. But now I have a government telling me that this is a tax loophole that needs to be closed. Since Paul Keating intro...
