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Graphic fromThe Age Read more »
Prime Minister and Treasurer,
We elected you to make the decisions and frame the legislation for the good running of this great country.
You have been in government now for six months so take the "bit in your teeth" and start telling the Banks not to put extra on their rates just because they want to. Read more »
Tucked neatly into Joe Ludwig and Jenny Macklin's joint media release, on the welfare debit card to be introduced this year for Centrelink clients under income management and all baby bonus recipients, is this little admission. Read more »
It seems we are all in the middle of a very low key National E-security Awareness Week in which the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy 'launched' a new a new email security alert service for homes and small business.
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The Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration budget estimates hearing on Monday 26 May 2008 is throwing up some strange instances.
Apparently the desire to stop senators accessing inappropriate material on the internet, also known as research censorship, had resulted in a well-known gay newspaper being blocked from view. Read more »
The first six months of Kevin Rudd as prime minister heading a Labor government has not been the complete waste of time that the Opposition tries to portray.
Nor do I believe that Mr. Rudd has given up this early in the piece.
However, in an effort to be seen as the 'reasonable' face of Labor he is beginning to lose his way. Read more »
A question for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd:
Why is an extremist cult, whose activities break up families, given a wide berth by the Australian Government? Read more »
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