Institute of Public Affairs executive director John Roskam reports: The IPA’s Julie Novak has done some calculations on just how big Rudd’s budget deficits will be – here’s what her results look like. The title of ‘Whitlamesque’ doesn’t do them justice!
Andrew McIntyre picked up on an exchange between ABC1’s Q&A presenter Tony Jones and panellist Judith Sloan about growing, shrinking and sharing the economic pie.
In the wake of former Greens’ leader Bob Brown’s advocacy of a democratically elected bicameral world parliament, Quadrant editor Keith Windschuttle considers what such governance could mean.
Here’s another reminder, if you needed one, why conservatives are regretting Nick Minchin’s absence from the federal Parliament.
The crucial question is whether the federal Labor government’s infatuation with propaganda is an aberration or an enduring feature of Labor’s degeneration into the political wing of a culturally powerful but narrowly based, sectional interest? John Muscat writes at Quadrant Online.
Mitt Romney’s win in the Illinois Republican primary was his most significant victory since Florida, Tom Switzer told ABC TV’s The Drum yesterday.
The “green brand” has been dying slowly since 2007-08 and the number of supporters are nearly now matched by the number of sceptics, marketing strategist David Chalke says.
New Greens’ leader Christine Milne is looking to cultivate more support for her party in rural Australia. Nationals’ leader Warren Truss says the Greens have a history of “just being around when there’s something to protest about”.
The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, a new activist taxpayer body that says it will be a “do tank” rather than a “think tank”, is set to launch in Sydney next week.
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