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PoliticalOwl - March 16, 2010 - 7:37am
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Labor has a lot of insulation

PoliticalOwl - March 12, 2010 - 9:48pm

In Australia we have four regular pollsters - Newspoll appears fortnightly in The Australian, AC Nielsen monthly in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age, the Morgan Poll which has no major media home has a fortnightly version based on face-to-face interviews and weekly phone poll reports while the Essential Report, which Crikey Read more »

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PoliticalOwl - March 9, 2010 - 8:30am
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Parental leave

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Media wrap - Kevin Rudd goes to the gym

PoliticalOwl - March 7, 2010 - 10:13am
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PoliticalOwl - March 5, 2010 - 7:44am
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Green schemes

Anger over case of the phantom insulation batts – Greg Combet has called in the Auditor-General to investigate the bungled $2.45 billion home insulation program – The Australian

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Media wrap - Previewing an announcement on hospitals

PoliticalOwl - March 3, 2010 - 6:53am
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Media wrap - The Prime Ministerial mea culpa

PoliticalOwl - March 1, 2010 - 6:57am
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Media wrap - The insulation problem spreads to a second Labor minister

PoliticalOwl - February 23, 2010 - 7:32am
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And now it's Conroy in the gun!

PoliticalOwl - February 21, 2010 - 8:35am
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A safe way for Barnaby

PoliticalOwl - February 19, 2010 - 8:05pm

The largely unsuccessful attempt by The Australian this week to suggest that there was something wasteful about the way AusAID administers its program has nevertheless provided a foundation for Opposition Finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce to appeal to those of his countrymen who dislike foreigners. The Senator began the process yesterday with his questioning of whether aid money was “going to the people who really need it, or to the leeches who suck off it”. Read more »

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PoliticalOwl - February 19, 2010 - 8:35am
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Media wrap - TV chiefs bribed says Abbott

PoliticalOwl - February 17, 2010 - 8:32am
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Grubby politics

TV networks 'bribed', says Abbott – Tony Abbott has stirred emotions by describing a decision to cut licence fees for free-to-air television stations by $240 million as a bribe for favourable election-year coverage – Sydney Morning Herald

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Media wrap - Bad Queensland poll news for Labor - federal and state

PoliticalOwl - February 15, 2010 - 6:46am
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Danger signal in Melbourne Age story

PoliticalOwl - February 13, 2010 - 12:27pm

There's danger aplenty for Peter Garrett in a story in the Melbourne Age this morning about an apparent reluctance to release a a safety risk assessment on the government's insulation rebate program, prepared by lawyers from Minter Ellison early last year. The Environment Minister promised to make the document available when being interrogated by Kerry O'Brien on the 7.30 report on Thursday night. Yesterday, his office confirmed that it would be released, reports the Age, but did not say when. Read more »

Media wrap - Media buys Labor talk of hospital improvements

PoliticalOwl - February 10, 2010 - 7:40am
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Interest rate rises in Labor hands – The head of the Reserve Bank has held out the prospect of continuing low interest rates, as long as Labor sticks to its pledge to restrain spending – Sydney Morning Herald

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Media wrap - Big coal contract with China

PoliticalOwl - February 7, 2010 - 5:29pm
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Media wrap - Belinda Neal back in the news

PoliticalOwl - February 5, 2010 - 12:01pm
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Industrial relations

Rio Tinto warns of Pilbara industrial relations war – Mining giant Rio Tinto has warned that growing industrial unrest in Australia's booming resources sector could spread to its critical iron ore mines, as it prepares to start bargaining with unions over workers' pay and conditions for the first time in 15 years – The Australian

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Media wrap - The election battle of the environment plans

PoliticalOwl - February 3, 2010 - 7:07am
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Media wrap - Budget blowout forecast

PoliticalOwl - February 1, 2010 - 7:38am
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Media wrap - Hunger strike largely ignored

PoliticalOwl - January 30, 2010 - 6:42am
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Therese chooses my clothes, says Kevin Rudd – Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has confessed he is no fashionista, and waits for his wife to lay out his tie for the day – Brisbane Courier Mail

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Media wrap - Schools dominate the news pages

PoliticalOwl - January 29, 2010 - 8:30am
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Education

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Hip hop meets the holocaust

PoliticalOwl - January 27, 2010 - 8:09am

Music for political junkies. Esther Bejarano, one of the last surviving members of the Auschwitz Girls' Orchestra which was forced to play as trains full of Jews and Roma pulled into the camp, has joined with the Cologne-based rappers from Microphone Mafia to make an enchanting album with a documentary film to follow. It is all rather musically different to what this remarkable 85 year old woman is used to. But as she told Der Spiegel: "But I know this hip hop stuff is popular among the youth. I thought if we worked together, then young people could learn more about what happened back then." Read more »

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PoliticalOwl - January 25, 2010 - 8:14am
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Immigration

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Media wrap - The pollster gives a verdict on Tasmania and Labor won't like it

PoliticalOwl - March 19, 2010 - 7:05am
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Media wrap - Another old timer returns to the centre of the political stage

PoliticalOwl - March 17, 2010 - 7:11am
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Leadership

Costello's big swipe at Abbott – Former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello has launched a scathing attack on Tony Abbott's parental leave scheme, savaging its new tax impost as contrary to the party's principles – Melbourne Age

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Media wrap - Bank bashing by the bank

PoliticalOwl - March 12, 2010 - 9:17am
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Media wrap - The hospital debate dominates again

PoliticalOwl - March 6, 2010 - 6:53am

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Health and hospitals

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Media wrap - The papers are full of health and hospitals

PoliticalOwl - March 4, 2010 - 6:02am
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Health and hospitals

Doctor Rudd orders shock treatment - Kevin Rudd has promised a referendum on health this year unless the states agree to surrender about $90 billion in GST funding so the Commonwealth can take responsibility for most public hospital expenses and meet all outpatient costs – Sydney Morning Herald

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Media wrap - Diversionary plans: Education yesterday - Health tomorrow

PoliticalOwl - March 2, 2010 - 8:19am
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Health and hospitals

Kevin Rudd to cut away the dead tissue of our ailing health care system – The Federal Government will move to seize control of hospital funding from the states in a provocative reform of the nation's health system to be announced this week – Sydney Daily Telegraph

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Media wrap - A funny little poll

PoliticalOwl - February 28, 2010 - 10:30am
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Media wrap - Richard Ackland gives an example of ASIO and secrecy

PoliticalOwl - February 26, 2010 - 8:14am
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Insulation

I'm to blame for the lot in bungled insulation scheme, Kevin Rudd declares – Kevin Rudd has expressed disappointment at his own performance over the bungled home insulation scheme, admitting he should have asked more questions about the program's implementation - The Australian

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PoliticalOwl - February 22, 2010 - 7:02am
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Media wrap - Garrett still surviving

PoliticalOwl - February 20, 2010 - 3:07pm

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Insulation

Garrett's backdown on insulation, solar rebates - The government's controversial home insulation program has been halted in a dramatic overhaul of environment schemes announced by embattled minister Peter Garrett – Melbourne Age

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No one is responsible now

PoliticalOwl - February 19, 2010 - 7:56pm

We came to a new point in Australian politics today. Ministerial responsibility is gone and a new system of no one is responsible for mistakes has replaced it.
The scrapping of the home insulation program will come to haunt this Labor Government. It makes a complete mockery of Kevin Rudd's claims to be a man who governs by following proper process. The whole sorry story is a text book example of what happens when public servants without experience in administering major contracts are told to spend money in a hurry.
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PoliticalOwl - February 18, 2010 - 8:06am
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Media wrap - And now it's Conroy's turn to be attacked

PoliticalOwl - February 14, 2010 - 10:11am
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Health and hospitals

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Will the cover-up catch Garrett?

PoliticalOwl - February 13, 2010 - 9:57am
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Insulation

Garrett holds on to safety report – Embattled Environment Minister Peter Garrett has refused to immediately release a safety risk assessment on the government's insulation rebate program, prepared by lawyers from Minter Ellison early last year – Melbourne Age

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Media wrap - Peter Garrett makes the headlines

PoliticalOwl - February 11, 2010 - 6:56am
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Media wrap - Rudd's broken hospital promise

PoliticalOwl - February 9, 2010 - 6:13am
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PoliticalOwl - February 4, 2010 - 6:39am
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Media wrap - Liberals improve in Newspoll

PoliticalOwl - February 2, 2010 - 8:12am
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Polls

Tony Abbott keeps pulling back Labor's lead: Newspoll - Abbott's opposition to the Rudd government's emissions trading scheme appears to have lifted the Coalition to its best position since the 2007 election loss, and Kevin Rudd's personal support is at its lowest since he became Prime Minister – The Australian

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No gain from loyally defending the leader

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Queensland Liberal Senator George Brandis yesterday and deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop have done Tony Abbott no favours by buying into the debate about the importance of virginity for modern youth. Both were trying to come to the aid of their Leader whose comments in aninterview with the Australian Women’s Weekly have had the egg beater taken to them by journalists and Labor politicians.

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PoliticalOwl - January 28, 2010 - 7:18am
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Consumers bracing for a rate rise – A rate rise next week is now considered a near certainty after the latest inflation figures showed prices rising too fast for the RBA's liking – Sydney Daily Telegraph

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