Turnbull poses threat to Rudd

October 4, 2008, 6:54pm, 66 views,  Leave a Comment

Playing catch up here, I haven’t commented since Malcolm Turnbull’s ascension to the Liberal Party leadership. Read more

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Stop nude child photography

October 4, 2008, 6:30pm, 71 views,  Leave a Comment

Photographer Bill Henson has been trawling schools to find children who will pose nude for him. Why isn’t he under arrest? Read more

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Capitalism has failed

October 4, 2008, 6:22pm, 64 views,  Leave a Comment

Capitalism has failed. That’s the only conclusion to draw from the $US700 billion bail-out package to secure world financial markets. Read more

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Rudd hears but will he learn?

June 29, 2008, 5:00pm, 196 views,  Leave a Comment

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says the voters in Gippsland have sent his government a message. Read more

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Confusing view on Asia

June 5, 2008, 3:05pm, 105 views,  Leave a Comment

Kevin Rudd has floated the idea of a new Asian-Pacific institution to builder stronger bilateral ties. Read more

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Rudd claims underdog status

May 21, 2008, 8:33am, 139 views,  Leave a Comment

Kevin Rudd has staked a claim for underdog status in the Gippsland by-election.
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Rudd defies gay lobby

May 4, 2008, 6:42pm, 236 views,  1 Comment

My respect for Kevin Rudd’s political antenna has been revived after some doubts emerged during the 2020 love fest. Read more

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Parliamentary farce

February 22, 2008, 6:15pm, 156 views,  Leave a Comment

Carboard Rudd

Federal Parliament today was farcical, with Opposition members ejected for disrupting proceedings. They were protesting the extra sitting day.

Parliament traditionally closed on Thursday evening, but the new Labor Government has added low-key Friday sessions without question time to work through legislation.

For MPs from Western Australia and country regions this has made it virtually impossible for them to return to their electorates between sitting weeks.

They rightly argue that if Friday sittings are so important there should be question time and the Prime Minister should attend.

Kevin Rudd visited an outback indigenous community today, but a life-size cardboard cutout version graced the House of Representatives.

This prompted the Speaker, Labor’s Harry Jenkins, to throw out four Opposition members.

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Kevin Rudd’s opening statement

October 15, 2007, 11:31am, 218 views,  Leave a Comment

Here is Kevin Rudd’s opening statement of the election campaign:

This election is about Australia’s future and it’s an election about a choice about who offers new leadership for Australia’s future. New leadership to help working families, new leadership with fresh ideas to deal with Australia’s future challenges. And what I’m offering the Australian is new leadership, both to help working families under financial pressure and new leadership for a plan for our country’s future.

This is a great country and there’s no better place on earth to live or to raise a family, but now today our country is facing new challenges, great challenges, and we must meet those challenges if we are going to secure our country’s long term future. Read more

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Rules of debate

October 15, 2007, 8:53am, 177 views,  Leave a Comment

The Liberal Party has invited Kevin Rudd to debate John Howard early in the campaign on its terms. These include burying the “worm”, ordaining the moderator (David Speers from Sky) and having no audience participation.

Of course Labor will accept. Along with the election timing, Howard controls when, where and how he debates Rudd.

It’s partly mind games to give no response to Rudd’s request for three debates and use of “new media” such as the internet.

Debates rarely have a decisive winner. A major blunder though could derail a campaign, so they are largely about risk management, rather than seeking a knockout punch. The contenders play for a draw.

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