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Media wrap - Bank bashing by the bank
PoliticalOwl - March 12, 2010 - 9:17am
Media wrap - Latest opinion poll shows Labor still well ahead but Rudd popularity down
PoliticalOwl - March 8, 2010 - 7:47am
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Polls
Media wrap - The hospital debate dominates again
PoliticalOwl - March 6, 2010 - 6:53am
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
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
Media wrap - A funny little poll
PoliticalOwl - February 28, 2010 - 10:30am
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
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
The best reason for an early double dissolution
PoliticalOwl - February 19, 2010 - 8:02pm
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.
Over in the Environment Department there are a whole lot of serious and well-meaning men and women who are well qualified to identify the energy saving, and thus environmental, benefits that an insulation program brings. They have no qualifications at all to spend billions to achieve their aims. Read more »
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PoliticalOwl - February 18, 2010 - 8:06am
Media wrap - Labor still comfortably in the lead on Newspoll
PoliticalOwl - February 16, 2010 - 7:19am
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PollsSetting the record straight
PoliticalOwl - February 15, 2010 - 8:13pm
Media wrap - And now it's Conroy's turn to be attacked
PoliticalOwl - February 14, 2010 - 10:11am
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
Media wrap - Peter Garrett makes the headlines
PoliticalOwl - February 11, 2010 - 6:56am
Media wrap - Rudd's broken hospital promise
PoliticalOwl - February 9, 2010 - 6:13am
Media wrap - Plenty of public servants to run it but no ETS
PoliticalOwl - February 6, 2010 - 9:31pm
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PoliticalOwl - February 4, 2010 - 6:39am
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
Media wrap - A good old fashioned murder with a sex theme dominates the papers
PoliticalOwl - January 31, 2010 - 11:27am
No gain from loyally defending the leader
PoliticalOwl - January 29, 2010 - 12:48pm
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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Economic matters
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
Media wrap - CPI forecasts and interest rate rises predicted
PoliticalOwl - January 27, 2010 - 6:59am
The personality cult
PoliticalOwl - January 21, 2010 - 7:55pm
That Australia now has the most presidential-style of government in its history should go without saying. From producing a book for children based on his household pets, to appearing with royalty at a refuge for the homeless to resuming duties as a breakfast television commentator, Kevin Rudd is, or soon will be, everywhere.
A Copenhagen promise that lasted 33 days
PoliticalOwl - January 21, 2010 - 7:54pm
In the rushed negotiations to salvage something from December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference ”the heads of state, heads of government, ministers, and other heads of the following delegations present” came up with what they called the Copenhagen Accord, which is operational immediately. Perhaps the major part of substance in that accord was this:
Media wrap - Politicians return to breakfast television
PoliticalOwl - January 21, 2010 - 6:14am
Magnificent spinning
PoliticalOwl - January 19, 2010 - 8:01pm
A great example of the political spinner’s art in the reaction of Julia Gillard to criticism by the Education Union of the way federal funds are distributed in favour of private schools at the expense of government ones. It was classic ”don’t mention the war” stuff as the Education Minister simply ignored those comments to declare: “The Rudd Government has welcomed a report released today by the Australian Education Union on school funding.This report highlights the unprecedented investment the Rudd Government is making in Australian schools.”
The voodoo science of the Himalayan glaciers
PoliticalOwl - January 19, 2010 - 8:00pm
Losing Senate control
PoliticalOwl - January 19, 2010 - 7:58pm
The probability will not even be that high if the Democrats lose this week’s election to fill the US Senate vacancy created by the death of Edward Kennedy. The latest poll reported by the Boston Globe has Republicans and Democrats level pegging while the Crikey Massachusetts Election Indicator based on the prediction markets has the Republicans in front.
Warmest year on record for the southern hemisphere
PoliticalOwl - January 19, 2010 - 7:49pm
Figures just released by NASA's Global Institute for Space Studies (GISS) show that 2009 was the warmest year on record for the southern hemisphere and the second equal warmest for the world as a whole. Read more »
Media wrap - Indonesian President gets favourable reviews
PoliticalOwl - March 11, 2010 - 8:02am
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PoliticalOwl - March 9, 2010 - 8:30am
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Parental leave
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
Media wrap - Previewing an announcement on hospitals
PoliticalOwl - March 3, 2010 - 6:53am
Media wrap - The Prime Ministerial mea culpa
PoliticalOwl - March 1, 2010 - 6:57am
Media wrap - The insulation problem spreads to a second Labor minister
PoliticalOwl - February 23, 2010 - 7:32am
And now it's Conroy in the gun!
PoliticalOwl - February 21, 2010 - 8:35am
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 »
Punishing the blogging commenters
PoliticalOwl - February 19, 2010 - 8:02pm
Media wrap
PoliticalOwl - February 19, 2010 - 8:35am
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
Watching a PM under pressure
PoliticalOwl - February 15, 2010 - 8:14pm
Media wrap - Bad Queensland poll news for Labor - federal and state
PoliticalOwl - February 15, 2010 - 6:46am
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Elections and polls
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 - Garrett still in the gun and Barnaby attracts attention
PoliticalOwl - February 12, 2010 - 7:20am
Media wrap - Media buys Labor talk of hospital improvements
PoliticalOwl - February 10, 2010 - 7:40am
POLITICS AND ECONOMICS Economic matters
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
Media wrap - Big coal contract with China
PoliticalOwl - February 7, 2010 - 5:29pm
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
Media wrap - The election battle of the environment plans
PoliticalOwl - February 3, 2010 - 7:07am
Media wrap - Budget blowout forecast
PoliticalOwl - February 1, 2010 - 7:38am
Media wrap - Hunger strike largely ignored
PoliticalOwl - January 30, 2010 - 6:42am
POLITICS AND ECONOMICS Political life
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
Media wrap - Schools dominate the news pages
PoliticalOwl - January 29, 2010 - 8:30am
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 »
Media wrap
PoliticalOwl - January 25, 2010 - 8:14am
You might not like Piers but …
PoliticalOwl - January 21, 2010 - 7:56pm
The man is not always wrong just because you regularly disagree with him. Read more »
A crucial piece of legislation?
PoliticalOwl - January 21, 2010 - 7:55pm
So far the irritatingly dead-pan Climate Change Minister Penny Wong has maintained that the twice-defeated emissions trading legislation is in the vitally necessary category. The plans are afoot to introduce it for a third time as soon as the Parliament returns next month from its summer break. Read more »
The cries for further economic reform
PoliticalOwl - January 21, 2010 - 7:53pm
A possible explanation of the latest poll
PoliticalOwl - January 19, 2010 - 8:01pm
Perhaps statements like that of Ms Gillard are the reason that the Greens, independents and minor parties did so well in the first Newspoll for the year. I detect among my Labor friends - some would call us the chattering class - a growing sense of disillusion with the way that this Rudd led government continually tries to avoid making any standards on what used to be the Party’s principles. When pragmatism rules so completely there is bound to be a search for a purer alternative and for the left the Greens are providing it.
Dangerous development for Rudd and Co
PoliticalOwl - January 19, 2010 - 7:59pm
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has stuck steadfastly with President Barack Obama on the climate change issue but that course is becoming more difficult as the chances rapidly reduce of the United States legislating for a “cap and trade” carbon scheme like Australia’s planned emissions trading scheme. The political trading markets now rate the chance of Congress passing Obama’s planned legislation this year as down to 25%.
Abbey and Jasper?—?the sequel. By Barnaby Joyce
PoliticalOwl - January 19, 2010 - 7:56pm
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