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What can we expect from our government?
While independents, Greens and Australian Democrats have played major roles in the Senate, the normal position of independents in the lower House...
Expect Libs to go in for the kill
Despite calls for consensus politics, for the next three years Australians should expect a Liberal-led opposition to behave like an animal that's...
Minority government gridlock good for the ALP
Labor lost the war. But it won the reconstruction handily. Nobody thought the Gillard team could come together as it did in the last two weeks....
A cynical look at parliamentary reform
We're usually a distrustful lot. When it was revealed Andrew Wilkie had asked for federal funds to redevelop the Royal Hobart Hospital, everybody...
Life under Gillard could be an expensive business
If Julia Gillard holds government, the alliance she will have cobbled together will speak in one voice on one major issue - climate change. Andrew...
As a business manager, Victoria doesn't hold water
Rain is falling in Victoria and water restrictions are being relaxed. How well has the Government performed as a business manager in...
Snapping at heels of civil liberty
It was obviously a tactical error for Paul Hogan to tell the Australian Taxation Office to "come and get me, you bastards". The ATO claims Hogan...
Government: who needs it?
The election result isn't all bad. If you own shares, you shouldn't be unhappy we don't have a government yet. That's because there's a chance that...
Gillard likely to cop expansive Green agenda
Julia Gillard says that neither party has convinced Australia that it alone has won the right to govern and that "our political processes must...
The cost of fighting the cost of living
Despite both major parties claiming they'll fight to stop increases in the cost of living, neither are likely to deliver with the parliament...