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925EconomyNATION, STATE: National conversation called by those who are deaf to all form of entreaty
The Brains Trust … Hockey, Abbott, Bishop, Truss … Canberra is notorious for its gas-baggers, blatherskites, hum-buggers, codswallopers, and hog-washers but lately...
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818Economy
IGR: An alarming piece of sloppy propaganda
Liberal brains trust … Treasurer Hockey, PM Abbott, Julie Bishop, Warren Truss Side-stepping convention, tiptoeing around the climate elephant in the room,...
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891Economy
The Intergenerational Report and Triggs’ TFC: What it says about us. Thursday: Living to 100
Federal Treasurer, Joe ‘Show-bag’ Hockey, a man of few graces, no distinction and fewer achievements, has finally done something noteworthy. He has...
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1.1KCoroner & Legal
Brandis must resign
Australians were shocked this week to discover Attorney-General George Brandis appearing to act as if he were above the law in joining...
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1.3KEconomy
NATION: A dark new chapter …
The attack on AHRC President, Professor Gillian Triggs marks a dark new chapter in the descent of the Abbott government as it...
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891Coroner & Legal
NATION: National security …
Six Australian flags arrayed behind him, a squadron of assorted spooks and security operatives before him, the Prime Minister summoned all the...
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1.5KEconomy
NATION: Unfunded empathy. The Gillian Triggs offer …
‘ … you can’t go around with unfunded empathy here,” Scott Morrison told ABC radio beginning the coalition’s second week of ‘good...
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813Economy
Joe Hockey calls for a conversation …
‘I think the nation is ready for a conversation about our future.’ Joe Hockey, Australia’s hapless treasurer, fingered the ‘conversation’ trope reverently...
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1.6KEconomy
Abbott: the slathering junkyard dog …
*Pic: Peta Credlin adorns The Age’s Good Weekend mag … Like a fart in a pickle barrel the Federal Coalition reverberated from...
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966Economy
Tony Abbott snatched a victory of sorts …
Fighting off a mob of 40 colleagues baying for his blood at Monday’s party room meeting Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott snatched...
