It’s possible Kevin Rudd may have been behind a community campaign to independently support him, going on photos supplied by a reader. Apparently signs that weren’t official ALP signs,  supporting Kevin went up without being authorised. The authorisation was written on in pen later on in the day when the lapse was pointed out to [...]

The Liberals are running two different election day messages on their wrap. Does either work? How do they decide where to display it?

Quickly now, in 3 seconds answer this question: does your family have private medical insurance? If you know the answer, give yourself 5 points. Now another quickie (no cheating, by looking at your will or asking your accountant) Do you own any properties? If you got that right, you get another five points and hit [...]

Joseph Stiglitz probably can’t be called a babe, he’s too hairy, too old and much too wise. But to me he’s an intellectual babe, and hearing him speak at the ANU this week was as rewarding as I expected it to be. The Canberra Times article said the audience, which must have been at least [...]

We are now well into the election campaign, and both the Libs and the ALP seem to be scrambling for the lowest risk middle ground. The area I am most interested in, environment, flows into population issues, urban planning and infrastructure, food security and of course climate change. On none of these issues is either [...]

When you’re struggling for credibility why would you re-announce the most announced infrastructure project in Queensland’s history? Yes, there must be an election on because someone has promised to build the Redcliffe to Brisbane railway line, yet again. And that someone is Julia Gillard, whose announcements last week of a Citizens’ Assembly and Cash for [...]

Julia Gillard proclaimed today at her first set speech of the campaign that this election would be a “referendum on services for working families”. Her first offering was a speech on a sustainable Australia in which she managed to wrap up an amazing number of campaign themes, and even attempt to wedge Tony Abbott. Bravura [...]