The treatment of deposed Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is set to play a major role in the federal election campaign as early polls continue to echo voter disquiet over the manner of his ousting.
Can't say that Prime Minister Gillard's almost immediate accommodation with the mining executives wasn't expected. But spare a thought for former PM Kevin Rudd as he contemplates the reasons for his removal by the Labor party,
It's been some time since we've seen Labor in government and last week's removal of Kevin Rudd as leader revealed their inexperience and obsessions with opinion polls.
He hadn't contested the leadership spill called by former deputy Julia Gillard, allegedly because the numbers were so embarrasingly against the former PM that to contest would have been foolhardy
The next few weeks will be ablaze with commentary and analysis of the federal Government's 2010 budget, detailing the winners and losers of Treasurer Wayne Swan's third budget.
It appears that the current government is being held hostage to the opposition's agenda, though this is problematic as the Opposition appear not to know quite what the agenda is themselves.
The decision by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd earlier this week to shelve plans for an emissions trading scheme has drawn ire from environmental groups who say it will harm the nation's economy.
Up to 30,000 people are expected to attend the 23rd National Sikh Games in Brisbane this weekend, an event organisers hope will contribute to repairing strained relations between Australia and India.
By Rich Bowden: Former Australian of the Year Prof Tim Flannery has praised a climate agreement reached by world leaders at Copenhagen and described Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s role in the key talks as “outstanding.” In a online statement from the Danish capital, author, leading climate scientist and commentator Prof Flannery, speaking on behalf...
By Rich Bowden: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told reporters that some agreement is still possible in key climate talks in Copenhagen despite major disagreements in over one hundred provisions. Despite a generally pessimistic view from world leaders as they fly in to Copenhagen for the culmination of nearly two weeks of acrimonious...
By Rich Bowden: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been accused of both lying to his people on climate change and of being one of the leaders of the move to destroying the Kyoto agreement. The inflammatory remarks were made by Lumumba Di-Aping, the chief negotiator at the Copenhagen climate talks who is negotiating...
By Rich Bowden: The Australian Opposition appears to have split over whether to support the Government’s amendments to key climate legislation after an extraordinary day in which their leader’s job hangs by a thread. After a drawn-out eight-hour meeting, Malcolm Turnbull, Leader of the Opposition, appeared to try to ram through agreement to the...
By Rich Bowden: The Australian Government has linked a weekend of searing temperatures in NSW, and wild flooding in the south, to changes brought about by global warming and demanded a political agreement on an emissions trading scheme by this week. NSW firefighters battled plus 40 degree heat while containing a number of dangerous...
In the first of a three-part series, Simon Hukin analyses the effectiveness of Australia's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), examines the alternative schemes and outlines the pitfalls involved in the problem of adopting a scheme to effectively reduce the country's carbon emissions.
By Rich Bowden: Asia Pacific leaders gathering in Singapore for this weekend’s APEC summit must commit to ambitious climate targets if they are to avoid economic, social and environmental catastrophe in the region, according to environment group WWF. The WWF statement called on Governments to put the issue of climate change ahead of pressing...
Fiji's relations with its neighbours hit a new low as its leader announced the expulsion of the Australian and New Zealand ambassadors.
The battle to gain political supremacy over the issue of asylum seekers entering Australian waters has again deteriorated.
Australian Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has described sections of his backbench as "smart arses."
Australia has agreed to more than double the amount of Pakistani officers training in Australia.
Calls for Australian PM Kevin Rudd to use the G20 to help protect poorer countries from the recent economic crisis.
The Australian Government has moved to decouple renewables target legislation from its more controversial carbon emissions trading bill.
By Rich Bowden Img: Sorry. Credit: Spud Murphy/flickr The release of the recent Productivity Commission’s report into the state of the Australian Government’s policy on closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians has provoked consternation in Government ranks and brought condemnation from the Australian media. As this PM report of Thursday 2/7/09 explains,...
