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2013/05/25 07:52
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Opposition leader Tony Abbott has told his party faithful the tide is turning their way, while Prime Minister Julia Gillard accused him of cockiness as she hailed Labor's 'champions of...
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2013/05/25 03:05
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PRIME Minister Julia Gillard got one standing ovation after another as she spruiked the Labor message to the party faithful. Back in the crucial western Sydney heartland for the second time in less...
2013/05/24 22:47
2013/05/24 22:47
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They say it's only when the tide goes out you discover who's been swimming naked. It's the same when you calculate the ''structural'' budget balance. And we've just learnt that though Wayne Swan's...
2013/05/24 22:27
2013/05/24 22:27
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A field of 12 candidates is seeking Liberal-National Party preselection today to fill Barnaby Joyce's Senate seat in Queensland. Health is one of the biggest spending areas of the Federal Government,...
2013/05/24 05:05
2013/05/24 05:05
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Liberals arrogant - GillardUpdated: 14:18, Friday May 24, 2013 Prime Minister Julia Gillard says arrogance within the Liberal party about its prospects of winning the federal election is getting 'out...
2013/05/23 16:17
2013/05/23 16:17
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EVEN if Tony Abbott were caught streaking naked down Collins Street in Melbourne the Coalition would probably still win the looming election, former Federal Treasurer Peter Costello says. The...
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2013/05/22 22:16
2013/05/22 22:16
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TWO of the Gillard Government's signature policies would be dumped or scaled back if regional Australians took the reins as treasurer. And the bad news doesn't end there for Julia Gillard or Wayne...
2013/05/22 20:47
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Illustration: John Spooner. 'When the history of this Parliament, this nation and this century is written, 30 June 1999 will be recorded as a day of fundamental injustice - an injustice which is...
2013/05/22 03:11
2013/05/22 03:11
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The funniest aspect of the Coalition’s renewed claim that Treasury’s independence has been compromised — a claim that has been trundled out ever since Labor came to power by both opposition and their...
2013/05/21 13:46
2013/05/21 13:46
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Illustration: Michael Mucci The personality, temperament, character and reliability of Tony Abbott is pretty much the primary issue that voters should be weighing up. If the opinion polls are right,...
2013/05/20 14:05
2013/05/20 14:05
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GST shouldn't be changed unless state's slash ineffective taxes in return, former Federal Treasurer Peter Costello said. The architect of the Goods and Services Tax warned that while reform is...
2013/05/19 21:05
2013/05/19 21:05
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JUST as I clamber towards the tap, I can see the last drops dribbling out. Middle-class welfare, the great decade-long gush of free stuff for lucky people, is about to dry up. And I'm a few moments...
2013/05/19 21:05
2013/05/19 21:05
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Sunrise host David Koch still remembers the day Joe Hockey rang to tell him his investment banker wife Melissa Babbage was selling "everything we own". It was a year before the global financial...
2013/05/19 15:46
2013/05/19 15:46
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Vikkie and Peter Chrisoulis with their children Kathryn, 11, James, nine, and Julian, six, at their home in Newport. John Howard was on the baby-kissing election trail in October 2001 when he met...
2013/05/19 07:46
2013/05/19 07:46
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They say every political career ends in failure. But some more than others. All the evidence suggests Wayne Swan's sixth budget, released last Tuesday, will be his last. In recent years the Treasurer...
2013/05/18 14:50
2013/05/18 14:50
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Former treasurer Peter Costello, who is on the board of Channel Nine, says the network is weighing its historical attachment to cricket against the dangers of paying too much to keep it. Nine is...
2013/05/17 22:49
2013/05/17 22:49
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Most of those who take a political approach to the budget assume that if it's in deficit, the way you get it back to surplus is to cut government spending or, if you're a really bad person, increase...
2013/05/17 12:59
2013/05/17 12:59
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WAYNE Swan laid out his sixth Budget as a choice for the nation but, when it came to putting the economic and political strategy behind it, the Government had no sustainable alternative. As the...
2013/05/17 12:15
2013/05/17 12:15
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Whilst the Illawarra was once considered a Labor stronghold, is it any wonder that our region is finally turning its back on the ALP following a Federal budget that had scant regard for our concerns,...
2013/05/17 06:26
2013/05/17 06:26
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TONY EASTLEY: Much to the chagrin of the Howard Government, the Labor Party has made a virtue of spending less than the Coalition in this campaign. But during the course of the year, and the campaign...