kevin rudd

what a gaffe: Open letter to the cabinet

September 28, 2011

This happened on my mothers local radio station.   He’s a happy little vegemite, that’s at least a good sign for a foreign minister sprooking a “once Australian” production.   Not that anyone will ask my opinion on the matter but for what it’s worth I think that the only “reasonable solution” (the time has [...]

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Oh julia

June 24, 2010

I want to believe that our first female PM can be reelected but I don’t know. We Aussies are good( the politicians at least) at putting women in the top jobs when there is a likely loss looming. Sacrificial lamb mentality. Possibly Related Posts: As the dust settles Quote: may I be equal anti-discrimination human [...]

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Are we at the starting blocks?

May 13, 2010

Get ready its going to be a bumpy ride and a long run. In the wake of what seemed a somewhat elongated UK election (who is David Cameron anyway?), I got to thinking about our own political landscape here in Australia. For those of us in New South Wales at least, we can look forward [...]

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Say it in seconds

August 11, 2009

Brevity may be the order of the day for our PM, but ultimately what they say is more important. Possibly Related Posts: heading to cold 6WS: late The view from 40 years on Saturday Snap: The view from down here A few random facts about me

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We are shrinking and maybe not just the economy

March 5, 2009

It seems official. Australia has just experienced its first quarter of negative growth in 8 years with a drop of half a percent in the GDP.  We are spending less after the aparent boom of the past 17 years. As Peter Hatcher as pointed out this must be exceedingly frustruteding for the Government. For Rudd [...]

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Australia 2020

April 27, 2008

Ok, so I am a bit late commenting on this I know but last weekend the Rudd government hosted the Australia 2020 summit. An exercise in listening to a handpicked collection of 1000 Australians for new ideas or re-hashed old ideas. In the words of Russell Skelton: For one weekend a national conversation took place [...]

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