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Continue Polluting Regardless Scheme

The Rudd government cannot be trusted nor taken seriously on climate change policy. As Kevin struts the UN stage lecturing others about … More

carbon pollution reduction scheme, Caroline Lucas, Continue Polluting Regardless Scheme, CPRS, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, The Greens

Bradfield Beckons the Brave

Political party preselection would not normally remain on KC political correspondent’s radar, but the rush for ex Liberal leader Brendan Nelson’s vacating seat of … More

Bradfield Liberal preselection, Brendan Nelson, John Alexander, John Bradfield, Keating, Napoleon III, Sartor

Garrett’s Gorgon-Zola

Federal environment minister Peter Garrett’s latest blooper is gross. A week after Kevin Rudd proudly announced a $50 billion (tax revenue) deal to … More

Barrow Island nature reserve, carbon storage, flatback marine turtle, Gorgon project approval, Mora Main Greens Councillor, Peter Garrett, West Atlas oil rig spill, Zola's Germinal

Powerbroken!

The ongoing debacle of leadership of NSW Labor and Premier’s role is a soap opera, tragi-comedy or facsimile of TV series The Sopranos. Moir’s SMH cartoon … More

Della Bosca, Eddie Obeid, Joe Tripodi, Moir cartoon, Nathan Rees, NSW Labor, NSW mafia, NSW Premier, powerbrokers, Sartor, The Sopranos

Getting Greched

Re the Utegate farce: the Auditor-General reported on Treasury’s role and its senior policy wonk & leak Gollum Grechen, uncovering shortfalls in departmental security … More

Auditor General, Godwin Grech, Ken Henry, national security, organisational psychologists, Ozcar, Treasury, Utegate, Verona Burgess, vetting pack

Timor Time: Letter to G. Whitlam

Dear Gough, Events at Balibo in Timor in 1975, involving the killing of five Australian journalists by Indonesian military, and … More

Balibo, Don Willesee, East Timor, Geraldine Willesee, Gough Whitlam, Indonesian invasion

Liberal Leadership: An Oxymoron

Federal Liberal Party leadership is normally not worthy of KC scrutiny, with more important issues to report, like Kookynie council elections and the new baby kangaroo health … More

ABC Australian Story, Federal Liberal Party, Joe Hockey, leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, Tony Abbott, Utegate

More Afghanistan Truths

Against a backdrop of more deaths of NATO soldiers and a vacuum of political debate about Australia’s war engagement in Afghanistan, pertinent public assessments were made last week. Prof Hugh White … More

Angus Houston, Hugh White, ISSD, John Faulkner, NATO Afghanistan, Obama, Robert Gates, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban

Belfast ‘Orangefest’

Orange marching season in Northern Ireland has its climax on July 12. People leave the country to avoid riots that inevitably follow this provocative Protestant tradition. Parades organised by … More

Northern Ireland, Orange Order, Orangefest, Protestant Belfast

Four Miles from Midnight: Blue Sky Blues

Reverse triple somersault with double pike, or volte-face as we say in diplomatic circles, was performed by so-called Environment Minister … More

Blue Sky Mine, Four Mile uranium mine, General Atomics, Heathgate Resources, Malcolm Turnbull, Midnight Oil, Peter Garrett

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