Elected by the people of Australia to bring back a ‘fair go’. Proud that Australia was kept from global economic recession; proud people kept in work; work choices gone; national infrastructure built – especially the national broadband network; the education revolution; trades training centers; new libraries in schools; nationwide early childhood education; national curriculum; 50,000 …

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Australia will have a new Prime Minister today. It is an extraordinary turn of events. Kevin Rudd’s base of power within the Labor Party was based on two things: delivering government and maintaining government. He has no particular factional alignment that provides him with a power-base in the Labor movement. When elected leader Rudd chose …

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Reading the Australian Constitution is little help at all. If you took out direct reference to the name of our nation, you’d think it was describing some other nation altogether. In practice, the Australian people elect the parliament; the members of the parliament elect the executive, including the Prime Minister. Due to the fact that …

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