Quantcast
Channel: Independent Australia » Kevin Rudd
Browsing all 100 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

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 Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

A 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

To 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

We 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Infrastructure 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Australia’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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

FactCheck: 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Ellis: 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Vietnam 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

We 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Questioning 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

What 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

We 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The 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 Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bob 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bob 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 Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The 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...

View Article
Browsing all 100 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images