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Recession: Rudd's year of denial
The media, including The Australian Financial Review, were keen to ventilate material yesterday from the Prime Minister's office that Kevin Rudd...
Rule by nods and winks
The idea that anyone, let alone the government, has a clue about what the internet will look like in eight years' time is preposterous. In 2001 we...
Where's the breadth of vision in Rudd's broadband plan?
With the national broadband network (NBN), Kevin Rudd is stepping into the breach to save the Australian economy for the fifth time. Already we've...
How a joker sent Battman to the rescue
Confident that the Prime Minister can steer us out of the financial crisis? Don't be. Every policy announcement, every job-creation program, every...
An FDR future with muddleheaded Rudd
From London, our globetrotting Prime Minister is preaching for regulations to rescue capitalism. But Mr Rudd's policy record provides no confidence...
Big and getting bigger
Kevin Rudd would have felt right at home at the Group of 20 summit. He was in the city where political spin was invented. And he was joined by the...
Home is where the solution is
The phrase "it's the economy, stupid" has been transformed into "it's the perception, stupid". The G20 conference being held in London is all about...