Minister Must Come Clean

The Minister for Employment Participation and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery, Senator Arbib, today failed to put to bed serious questions about preferential funding of Labor-held electorates through the so-called Building the...

Stimulus money ‘favours Labor’

New evidence has emerged that the Government’s stimulus-package spending is heavily weighted towards Labor marginal seats, sparking allegations of election pork-barrelling. Claims the stimulus is being used to get Kevin Rudd re-elected co-incide with Government...

Stimulus sums aren’t adding up

The developing trouble with the Government’s economic stimulus package is it’s pulling in two different directions at once: one economic, the other political. There is no argument the injection of emergency taxpayer funding into the economy in the face of...

Stimulus bias sign of times

The developing trouble with the government’s economic stimulus package is that it is now pulling in two different directions at once; one economic, the other political. There is now no argument that the injection of emergency taxpayer funding into the economy in the...

Kiwis score bonus

New Zealanders and other foreigners are using the First Home Owner Grant scheme to buy holiday homes in Australia, the Federal Government concedes. In answer to Senate Estimates questions put to the Government by the Opposition, it was confirmed New Zealanders are...

He’s our populist PM – Rudd taps into celebrity power

TV stardom, celebrity gossip and getting friendly with Hollywood greats. It sounds like the rock star lifestyle. But while it is not, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has certainly brought a world of pop culture to The Lodge. Our Tweeting PM is taking the populist PM persona...