Labor’s National Emergency

Did you know that Kevin Rudd has declared a national emergency? Well, maybe not a national one, but a political one – for the Labor Party. Tony Abbott hit the nail on the head this afternoon when he described it as “just a political emergency for our Prime...

Election Battleground – Resources Super Tax

Just a few weeks ago, Kevin Rudd was channelling the ghosts of Rex Connor and Pauline Hanson in his drive to impose a great big new tax on mining. He said: ”BHP is 40 per cent foreign owned, Rio Tinto is more than 70 per cent foreign owned. That means these...

Labor’s Rubbery Budget

Earlier tonight, Wayne Swan and Kevin Rudd brought down their third budget and taxpayers should be scared. Terry McCrann hit the nail on the head this morning. He outlined that this budget was driven by pure politics -creating the illusion of financial responsibility....

Henry Tax Review

After months of hiding it from public scrutiny, earlier today Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan released the Henry Tax Review, along with the Labor Government’s response. As expected, both the review and the Government’s response contained proposals for massive...

Election Battleground: Border Protection

Which member of the Labor frontbench said on 23 April 2003 that: “Another boat on the way, another policy failure”? If you guessed Julia Gillard then you would be right. Gillard was the Shadow Minister for Population and Immigration under Simon Crean...

Election Battleground: Health

Since the rejection of the Emissions Trading Scheme by the Senate, we have not heard a lot about the ‘greatest moral challenge of our time.’ As Labor ‘shop around’ and use different policy announcements like a focus group, we have started...