When Rudd goes to international shindigs like the one in Italy, he has to play a delicate balancing game. He must be seen to be an active player without revealing Australia’s insignificance on the world stage. This is because Australian politics, and especially this government, is far more reliant on the international stage for prestige than its political weight on that stage permits.
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Terry McCrann has responded to the call for a new inquiry into the financial system with a snark-filled piece which is of sociological, if not intellectual, interest. Let’s jump to his last para Many Liberals like former NSW Labor Treasurer Michael Costa. GetUp! has officially launched Censordyne , an ad and website campaign combo to help stop the Government from introducing Internet censorship in Australia. The group hopes to show the ad on Qantas flights in August when politicians are on flights to Canberra as Parliament resumes. Watch here: Children’s welfare groups Save the Children and the National Children’s & Youth Law Centre joined GetUp! in the campaign, issuing a joint statement (PDF) : We argue that the tens of millions of dollars that such a scheme will cost should instead be diverted to appropriate child protection authorities and police to prevent the abuse of children, and towards effective community-based education strategies that give children and parents the skills to protect themselves Al Jazeera ’s reporting our news. In the Fairfax broadsheets this morning, constitutional law academic George Williams gives his reading of the High Court’s judgment in Pape v Commissioner of Taxation and the Commonwealth of Australia. As readers may recall, earlier in the year UNE academic Bryan Pape challenged the constitutional validity of the government’s tax bonus payments Graph from Scott Haslem at UBS Peter Martin is the economics correspondent for Australia’s two leading newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age . He blogs at peter martin’s blog , peter’s picks and twitter . We’re losing the glooms Australian consumers have smothered thoughts of recession as the International Monetary Fund has sharply revised up its forecasts, staking its reputation on a stronger than expected global recovery next year. The ABS has the story Peter Martin is the economics correspondent for Australia’s two leading newspapers, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age . |
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