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I was very pleased to read that Julia is now an Honorary Visiting Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide. Great coup for the University. In other academic news... ...Kevin Rudd has been awarded the degree of MLABSA (a "Master of Lies and Bullsiht Artistry"*). . . . . . . . *I...

It's just another opinion piece. And, truth be told, coming from Crikey certainly doesn't mean it was written on stone at Mt Sinai. 1. "Labor’s lowest primary vote for a century!" So it is factually correct, if not contextually dubious. But it is still factually correct. 2. "It was a...

I just did a google search for the phrase: "returning a budget surplus is more importanter than investing in education" I got 1 hit. This thread. Nice one. And they appear to contimuously make **** up too.

On the eve of the election (though I guess there is still 20 or so hours to go) Centrebet has: Coalition - $1.02 ALP - $14.00 Is that an all-but guaranteed [but not guaranteed, of course] 2% return on your money in as little as 48 hrs or so?

The issue of succession has raised its head in the last 3 governments: In spite of the (so called) "Kirribilli Agreement", Hawke couldn't let go of power in favour of Keating, so was challenged and on the 2nd occasion was rolled. It is no secret that Costello had higher ambitions and...

Well it kind of is (especially when you think about the role of Treasurer being one of only 3 central ministerial roles). And even more so, in a coalition government (the last two long serving coalition Treasuers - Howard and Costello - both had ambitions for The Lodge - but only JH got the...

Hockey was a junior minister in the Treasury portfolio way back when (Minister for Financial Services iirc) - he was seen as a bit of a joke around the Department tbh. In his defence, he has improved a lot since then. Maybe he will be PM one day (he was once the leader of the NSW Young...