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Swan's song in the key of austerity
08 May 12 | ON SUNDAY, the Greeks had their say on austerity budgets. In 2009, 78 per cent voted for Pasok (Labor) or New Democracy (Liberals). Now the two are in coalition, and on Sunday, their combined vote fell to 33 per cent. Some swing: 45 per cent.  | Fuel tax break for ag, not ... | Business to gain a $700m tax ...
07 May 12 | THE sound I'm hearing now is the sound of chickens coming home to roost. They are starting to drown out the sound coming from Wayne's World.  | Revenue gain as buyback slows | Chinese appetite to grow
Concealment hurts Coalition's clout
07 May 12 | SUDDENLY, the Coalition has discovered the sanctity of process, writes PHILLIP COOREY.  | CommentsComments (2) | Contrite PM in crisis control | PM should fall on her sword
06 May 12 | DELIVERING a poor Basin Plan will create more uncertainty for basin communities and only further destabilise the Murray-Darling system.  | CommentsComments (1)
Labor's nadir a team effort
03 May 12 | What brought Labor to its current low point was a team effort, writes PAUL SHEEHAN.  | CommentsComments (2) | Ministers close ranks around PM | Contrite PM in crisis control
‘You don’t know what you got ‘til its gone’
02 May 12 | MAINSTREAM media needs to understand what a real food shortage looks like, writes WAFarmers livestock executive officer Verity Morgan-Schmidt.  | CommentsComments (11)
No reason why we can't become a global food superpower
02 May 12 | Australia can play a key part in feeding the world as Asia booms.  | CommentsComments (14) | Dick Smith fears for food | Green-Labor spin 'comical': ...
Party in hell may find there is no Kevin
01 May 12 | DESPAIR is settling on the government and even some Gillard supporters are turning their minds to the possibility of Plan B - Kevin Rudd.  | CommentsComments (3) | Labor would lose both chambers | Gillard vows to stand by Slipper
Free range eggs need to be affordable
30 Apr 12 | IN THE stoush over the meaning of the term 'free range', consumer group Choice is campaigning against its namesake, writes David Leyonhjelm.  | CommentsComments (14) | Battery eggs under fire | Carr not so Voiceless in agri ...
PM should fall on her sword
30 Apr 12 | JULIA Gillard should consider falling on her sword for the good of the Labor Party, because she can no longer present an even slightly credible face at the election, writes MICHELLE GRATTAN.  | CommentsComments (16)
A Milne-stone around regional necks
29 Apr 12 | YOU can tell a lot from people’s gut reactions, says WARREN TRUSS, and the scoffs and guffaws to new Greens leader Christine Milne’s announcement of a listening tour of regional Australia said it all.  | CommentsComments (12)
Common ground in climate debate
27 Apr 12 | The science is far from settled, but there are things sceptics and warmists can agree on, writes former Liberal Senator Nick Minchin.  | CommentsComments (7) | He said, she said on global ... | MDBA's plan 'undeliverable'
Shades of Whitlam era in all this babble
24 Apr 12 | JULIA Gillard was blunt. When Peter Slipper's alleged behaviour has the community's hair standing on end, the PM cut to the core.  | CommentsComments (3)
Luxury status a boon for wool
23 Apr 12 | WHEN Australia rode on the sheep’s back, a lot of our clothing was made of wool. That changed as synthetics and cotton became popular, but as late as the 1970s wool enjoyed strong demand because the Soviet Union used it to make military uniforms.  | CommentsComments (1) | RFID push sparks outrage | Wool back in fashion: Rabobank
Gillard takes her eye off the bomb
23 Apr 12 | IT WAS only last week that Andrew Wilkie, trying to deal himself back into relevance, warned the government it may need him yet.  | Slipper claims pile pressure on ...
Moment of truth for Independents
23 Apr 12 | The following text message was allegedly sent by Peter Slipper on February 1 to one of his staffers, James Ashby: ''But you're [sic] call and no hard feelings in that you only want businesslike contact. In that event of the difficulty in our personal.''  | CommentsComments (7) | Abbot's plan: give states a say | Mining tax challenge 'solid': ...
Wheatgrowers need to grow up
16 Apr 12 | COMMENT: THE suggestion that wheat producers are either too innocent, inept or dumb to sell their own wheat would offend most of them. Yet that is what people who claim to represent their interests are suggesting, writes DAVID LEYONHJELM.  | CommentsComments (37)
ALP sets sights on southern votes
16 Apr 12 | LABOR is hoping the vanishing ''Brown factor'' will allow it to claw back three or four points on its weak primary vote in southern states.
Labor fears Greens will lack pragmatism
16 Apr 12 | THE Gillard government's immediate reaction to the departure of the Greens leader Bob Brown and to his replacement by Christine Milne was one of concern.  | Live export rules 'tokenistic' | Greens toughen up in quest to rule
Prescribed burners can't see the forest for the trees
14 Apr 12 | The DSE program could have some unforeseen devastating results.  | CommentsComments (5) | Foreign investment test ... | The more things change ...
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