Prime Ministers
- Surplus A Lifebuoy Labor Can Cling To
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Friday, 11 May 2012 - 10:52am General Content Item: Right Column Upper "Some in Labor ranks think the budget was framed more with a view to boosting the Prime Minister’s ...
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- Beyond the Budget Spin
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Monday, 7 May 2012 - 10:01am General Content Item: Left Column "The toughest budget in a generation is about to be brought down, but the prime minister ...
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- Rethink of Defence Projects To Save Billions
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in 2014, but Prime Minister Julia Gillard says it is being brought forward by a year." ...
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- Labor MPs Give PM A June Deadline
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Thursday, 3 May 2012 - 11:21am General Content Item: Left Column "Prime Minister Julia Gillard will be given a chance to sell the budget on May 8 but Labor MPs say ...
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- 'The Mountain' by Drusilla Modjeska
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be prime minister one day.” He and Rika are drawn to one another, overcoming bigotry and her pallid ...
The Monthly - Robyn Annear - 2012-05-03 11:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- May 2012 Editor's Note
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It’s budget time, that onset of chill when the leaves turn golden, the currawongs descend from the mountains and the billionaires swing into activism. Two years ago, vested mining interests set about scuttling a tax on their super profits, going at it so hard that they upended the Prime Minister to boot. ...
Blog - Monthly Wire - 2012-05-03 11:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- What Gina Wants
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the ground to quarry iron ore. Such was Lang’s prime ministerial pulling power that he even secured Sir John ... picked the guests. In the mid to late ’70s, Gina’s prime targets were a cabal of young Liberal students ... on to become a Howard government minister; Michael Yabsley, one of the stars of the Greiner ministry in New ...
The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-05-03 12:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Contrite PM in Crisis Control
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Monday, 30 April 2012 - 12:06pm General Content Item: Left Column In a double about-face yesterday, the Prime Minister withdrew her support for Mr Slipper's return ...
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- Economic Gloom Deepens Europe's Political Crisis
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Tuesday, 24 April 2012 - 1:26pm General Content Item: Right Column Lower “Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte became the latest euro-zone leader to fall victim to the region's ...
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- A deadly uncertainty in federal politics
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A deadly uncertainty in federal politics "I f, as the Slipper and Thomson cases drag on, both Labor and Parliament are dragged into real sleaze, the pressure on the independents to challenge th ...
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- A LINE HAS BEEN CROSSED
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to forget that it's not up to the press gallery to decide who should - or shouldn't - be the Prime Minister of the country? It seems so. ...
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- Public Cynicism Can Only Grow After Slipper
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the patronage of the party heavies, or worse, of the prime minister. The result has been notoriously incompetent ...
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- Dutch government falls victim to Europe's economic woes
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Dutch government falls victim to Europe's economic woes " Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte became the latest euro-zone leader to fall victim to the region's economic funk, tendering his resignation after failing to win enough backing in parliament ...
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- No one stays clean in a mud fight
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No one stays clean in a mud fight "Does the stench of sleazy sexual innuendo and misuse of taxpayers' money hurt the government? Absolutely. But the path of such stories so often proves to be ...
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- Now hiring: Prime Minister of Australia
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Now hiring: Prime Minister of Australia "You will report to Her Excellency the Governor General, the people of Australia, backbenchers, the Leader of the Opposition, faceless men, and Alan Jones..." ...
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- Rudd's secret mining tax deal
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Rudd's secret mining tax deal " The night before Kevin Rudd was rolled as prime minister, he and miner Andrew Forrest had just agreed to transform the resource super profits tax into a radical proposal to revolutionise the delivery ...
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- April 2012 Editor's Note
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In a typically clear-eyed blog post for the Monthly ’s website, Robert Manne spells out what needs to be spelt out: Tony Abbott will be Australia’s next elected Prime Minister ... freedom fighter turned exiled independence leader turned inaugural Foreign Minister turned Prime Minister ...
Blog - Monthly Wire - 2012-04-10 14:59 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- One Morning with Malcolm
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Abbott, Turnbull might still be leading the Liberal Party, he or Kevin Rudd might be prime minister ... an Australian citizen is threatened in this way, an Australian prime minister should respond.” Malcolm ... liberties issues he has been well to the left of Labor premiers and prime ministers. There is, however, ...
The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Once Were Warriors
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of this magazine by the Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister, Wayne Swan, in which he railed against the threats ... conservatives, it seemed, had bothered to read Swan’s essay. Swan, dubbed Euromoney ’s Finance Minister ... It was John Howard, of course, who, as the Liberal leader during Keating’s fading prime ministership, ...
The Monthly - Nick Dyrenfurth - 2012-05-08 17:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Gough Whitlam & Enoch Powell
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Chris Grosz Shane Maloney At the 1938 ceremony for the conferring of degrees in the Faculties of Arts and Law at the University ...
The Monthly - Shane Maloney - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Autumn of the Patriarch
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the Age in Melbourne reported that Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser had ordered the seizure. In those ... among the 13 first-round candidates, but this time neither would have Xanana’s support. The prime minister was supporting the very military candidacy of Taur Matan Ruak – Two Sharp Eyes , the resistance ...
The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-05-16 17:03 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Rockin’ Rupert
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Murdoch’s Tweets of Doom Peter Conrad Tweeting, as the Beat poets might have said, is for the birds – though w ...
The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2012-04-05 16:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Comment: Blessed are the Wealth-makers
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The British prime minister says his government will see to it that the next decade will be nothing less than ...
The Monthly - Don Watson - 2012-04-27 10:48 - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- The Long Goodbye: Explaining Gillard’s Collapse
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the party – to remove one of the more popular Prime Ministers in recent Australian history, the man who led ... as the leader of a minority government – Prime Minister Gillard now signed an agreement with Greens ... out by the Gillard loyalists, Rudd’s challenge had come far too early. Prime Minister Gillard ...
Blog - Robert Manne - 2012-03-29 11:33 - 40 comments - 0 attachments
- Farewell, Dame Edna
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Farewell, Dame Edna " Dame Edna lived the fame that she satirized. Her very presence, when staged against the grandees of the day - the Queen Mother, Princess Diana, Sir Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister - turned history ...
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