Will Obama advisors win election for ALP
Labor has imported three members of U.S. president Barack Obama’s successful 2012 campaign team to help win them the September 7 election, writes Jennifer Rayner. (Caricature by John Graham /...
View ArticleA Fischer of (anti-Semitic) men
Australia’s former Ambassador to Rome has written a book that should disgust Australia’s Jewish community, says senior correspondent Barry Everingham. WHEN KEVIN RUDD announced he was sending a...
View ArticleTo vote or not to vote — there is no question
PM Kevin Rudd has called the Federal election for 7 September 2013. Enrolments close 8pm tomorrow – Monday, 12 August 2013 – but can be done online, writes history editor Dr Glenn Davies. JUST OVER...
View ArticleWe really must talk about the pink batts
Despite the mendacious Murdoch media and the Coalition framing it as a dangerous disaster, Labor’s pink batts scheme was an outstanding success, explains Alan Austin. THE STRATEGY of the Murdoch media...
View ArticleInfrastructure Tony put trucks before people in Victoria
Tony Abbott has turned a deaf ear to voters in Victoria’s vital marginal seats who are calling for the Metro rail be built before the East-West Link. Deputy editor Sandi Keane investigates this...
View ArticleAustralia’s major parties sidetrack carbon dioxide threat
As Australians vote in their federal elections, there is a ‘gaping hole’ in the policies of the two major parties on dealing with the costs of climate change, writes Kieran Cooke from the Climate News...
View ArticleFactCheck: Australia’s economy is strong
The Prime Minister has said many times that Australia has a low budget deficit and debt to GDP compared with other major economies, and pointed to Australia’s AAA rating as evidence of a strong...
View ArticleEllis: Newspoll antics escalate in Dobell and Robertson
Bob Ellis has 9 serious questions and an answer about the results from the tiny combined Newspoll of Dobell and Robertson. Newspoll boss Martin O’ Shannessy has some questions to answer, says Bob...
View ArticleThe Dobell Robertson figures revisited
The unscrupulousness of the polling in Dobell approaches the wicked and may be criminal, writes Bob Ellis. THE POLLING we did in Dobell, going up to people of all ages in shopping malls on a Saturday...
View ArticleHow the Right runs things
Conservative politics has a series of tactics they use every time — and they have a chance of working against Rudd, writes Bob Ellis. THE RIGHT has a series of tactics it uses every time. First,...
View ArticleVietnam Vet denied Australian passport — citizenship revoked
A German-born Vietnam Veteran who lied about his age to enlist in 1967 has, in 2013, been denied an Australian passport. Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence reports. Australians in Vietnam...
View ArticleWe really must talk about what actually did save Australia
There are many reasons posited for why the Australian economy came through the GFC with flying colours; here, Alan Austin explains the real one — excellent economic management by the Rudd Government....
View ArticleQuestioning Neilsen and the robopolls
Serious questions must be asked about the methodology used by Neilsen to get its 47-53 result this weekend, says Bob Ellis. HOW DID the Nielsen poll obtain the numbers, 53 to 47, that have been used...
View ArticleWhat now for Chairman Rupert
Bloomberg News is making a revealing documentary about Rupert Murdoch and has asked former News Ltd executive Rodney E. Lever to contribute his thoughts. (‘The Fall of Murdoch’ Cover for The Week...
View ArticleWe really must talk about Murdoch’s tame economists
In Australia, to bludgeon his readers and viewers into believing the opposite of the truth, Murdoch has a battery of high profile economists fudging the numbers, says Alan Austin. More of Captain...
View ArticleThe newspaper industry joke
While Australia’s Press Council slumbers, Rupert Murdoch’s Courier-Mail has pleaded guilty to four criminal breaches of the Family Law Act, writes Rodney E. Lever. (Image via aph.com.au) IN THE EARLY...
View ArticleThe Greens and our climate future
In part one and two of this series, the climate change policies of the ALP and Liberals were dissected. In this final part, Doug Evans examines the Greens far more impressive climate change policies....
View ArticleBob Ellis: Inside Newspoll
Bob Ellis has been called a conspiracy theorist by expressing his doubts about polling companies, but after Clive Palmer’s revelations and this conversation with a Newspoll employee, can he be so...
View ArticleBob Ellis: baddies and worsies
Will Tony Abbott’s latest ‘baddies versus baddies’ gaffe be enough to swing the polls — or will something else emerge. Bob Ellis comments. Meme circulating after the Sunday Telegraph’s front page...
View ArticleThe future election and the wrong man for the times
Despite the urgency for climate change action, the “greatest moral challenge of our times” has barely rated a mention at this election. Liz Conor says Tony Abbott is a dangerous man to give such...
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