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Most of the election so far has proven to be a referendum on whether we could endure having John Howard back.
When Labor marched to defeat in 2001, it is thought that more than half of the paid-up members of the party voted for the Greens.
Letters from Anne Dooley and Lynn Webber.
Has John Howard ever been so much in charge of affairs? He has a complete ascendency over a defeated, demoralised and directionless Opposition.
The old firm is now entirely back in charge of the Labor Party. Not just Kim Beazley but the NSW Right.
The population is ageing. In 40 years, seven million Australians—a quarter of the population—will be aged 65 or older. So what’s the answer to this as a public policy dilemma?
Good old Kim Beazley has now been Leader of the Opposition again for six months. He gave a great speech after the Budget, even if he, and his advisers, made a complete mess of their tactics in opposing the Government’s tax cuts.
The largesse in the Budget shouldn’t have proven a surprise, even if conventional wisdom is that budgets following elections are the ones in which governments make tough decisions.
John Howard, the state premiers and the federal ALP are playing politics with terrorism.
Martin N. White and Marcelle Mogg
The interesting, and probably enduring, thing about The Latham Diaries is not Mark Latham’s critique of the Labor Party, or even what the book tells about his own self-centredness and self-destructiveness.
John Howard has a new pitch to the public on nearly everything, but particularly on national security and industrial relations: Trust me.
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