It’s not always just one moment that signals political demise. But sometimes it is. For John Hewson, it was answering a question about the theoretical GST payable on a birthday cake. For Mark Latham, it was too firm a handshake outside a radio studio. For Kim Beazley, it was getting Rove McManus and Karl Rove …
Joe Hockey is member of the Australian House of Representatives. He is the member for North Sydney and shadow treasurer, considered by many to be a future contender for the leadership of the parliamentary Liberal Party, though Hockey rules this possibility out, at least before the next election. Mr Hockey is delivering a series of …
I was listening to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio current affairs program AM at the gym this morning. One of the stories featured Don Watson, former speech writer for Paul Keating, all-around word curmudgeon and enemy of ‘weasel-words’. He was being interviewed about the use of ‘tiresome management speak’. Interviewer Sabra Lane asked Watson for …
Fairfax journalist Annabel Crabb wrote a wry article about our unapologetic Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd. Read it here. As an old Melburnian the link is to the Age website. Sorry for those who avoid such places. Crabb makes the observation that having been a figure of enthusiastic contrition for the failings of those who had …
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