Iraq; Obama & Abbott on Australian Jihadists; Barrier Reef
According to rather muddled overnight reports published on the web (extracts below), Obama has expressed “deep concern” in a CNN TV program... Read More
Iraq, Intepreting Labour Market Trends, Ray Evans
What to do about the Iraq war has produced widely diverse opinions and an indication that the principal player, Obama, may not... 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
Climate Change & Abbott’s Obama Meeting: Iraq
The failed attempts by various media to identify a major difference in climate change policies between Australia and the US has had... Read More
Terrorism, Climate Change, Royal Commission
Greg Sheridan provides below a very worrying perspective – probably understated –of Pakistan’s inability to prevent the attack (now a second one)... Read More
Bad Polling Continues – and economy seems weak
As expected, the Coalition polling continues to be bad and, despite minor errors by ministers in publicly explaining budget measures, there is... Read More
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Advance commentaries are appearing about desirable budget outcomes, with Henry Ergas setting the pace below. But most of the commentary seems based... Read More
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As expected, more problems are emerging in NSW following O’Farrell’s resignation. Most important, perhaps, is that new Premier Baird had approved when... Read More