IPCC’s Failure to Explain Pause; Budget Education by The Australian, not Hockey; Competition in the Labour Market
IPCC’s Failure to Explain Pause Bill Kininmonth’s letter published in yesterday’s Australian (see below) is an important reminder of the failure of... Read More
Budget Strategy; US-Israel Relations; Threats from Terrorism Heightened by US Attorney.
Budget Strategy While attention has been focussed on the process of repealing the carbon tax, both The Australian and the Australian Financial... Read More
Revised Budget Needed Soon; Statement on Extremist Islam needed too; Has Obama Checked out?; “New” Indonesian President?
Revised Budget Needed by 26 August Yesterday’s commentary suggested the Abbott government needs to present a revised budget. Henry Ergas has effectively... Read More
Abbott Govt Performance; Israel’s Problems; Terrorists from Australia
Abbott Government Performance When does a crisis in government occur? There is no simple answer to that but, as the editorial in... Read More
More Bad Polling; Budget still needs Selling; Refugee Nonsense: Russia Replacing US in Iraq?
Probably the most important aspect of today’s Newspoll, covering each state in the June quarter, is the large drop in Abbott’s rating... Read More
Budget Problem; Union Corruption; Climate Change Correction.
In what was foreshadowed as a major speech, Abbott’s claim last night that he would get the budget through – even if... Read More
Climate Change; Islamic Extremists & Anti-Terrorist Laws; More Exposure of Union Misbehaviour; Even Nobel Prize Winners Can Be Wrong
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Today Greg Sheridan points out that “endless commentators – none of them ever properly challenged on the facts” – are able to... Read More
Iraq & Caliphate; Where are Christian Churches?; Bad Poll for Coalition; Climate Change
As Obama announces sending some more troops to Iraq (another 300 plus helicopters and drones, but designated as being for the protection... Read More
Polling Stationary, Shorten Exposed, Welfare Dependency, Obama & Iran
Today’s virtually stationary Newspoll confirms that the “selling” of the budget has a long way to go. Of some interest is the... Read More
Welfare Dependency; Climate Change; Royal Commission on Union Corruption
The Melbourne Institute survey of Household, Income and Labour (HILDA), released today, is important because it focuses particularly on changes over time... Read More