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Leaders face drama of rewarding their political victims

Posted: 09 Sep 10 | After nearly three months hunkered down in their electorates, Labor and Coalition MPs have descended on Canberra for their first full party room meetings since Parliament rose back in June. |

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Stephanie Rice is just another Twit

Posted: 09 Sep 10 | Stephanie Rice is the latest high-profile athlete to learn that Twitter can easily expose the twit in all of us. |

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Both leaders face big challenges

Posted: 09 Sep 10 | One won the war, the other the peace, and now the rules have changed for both major parties. |

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The rules of engagement for dropping the F-bomb

Posted: 09 Sep 10 | So many questions remain unanswered about the deal cut between the various independents, the Greens and the ALP to return the government to the treasury benches, but none more pressing than who dropped the F-bomb at Windsor and Oakeshott's presser the other day. Two days into the new government, which promised to let the sunlight in, and still we remain in the dark about the identity of the potty mouthed F-bomber. |

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How Gillard won

Posted: 08 Sep 10 | Cajoling, strategising paid dividends for ALP |

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When girl meets girl

Posted: 07 Sep 10 | Even though I'm not single, I still go on dates sometimes. With girls. Want to take a moment to digest that with your poached eggs and sourdough? |

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Windsor runs into arms of likely loser Gillard

Posted: 07 Sep 10 | Under both Labor and Coalition governments, he said, country people were “always sidelined.” No longer: “This is about using the political system to the advantage of the people we represent,” said Windsor. |

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Oakeshott holds Australia hostage with self-indulgent theatrics

Posted: 07 Sep 10 | Everyone is entitled to their 15 minutes of fame. But the multitudes waiting to find out which side of politics would form Australia's next government have just been subjected to some particularly cruel and unusual punishment at the hands of the independent MP Rob Oakeshott. |

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No time for woulda coulda shoulda from Gillard

Posted: 07 Sep 10 | Good Lord, she's actually done it. Australia's next Prime Minister is Julia Gillard courtesy of Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott -- two conservative blokes from the bush. |

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Keeping MPs alive, at work and free of scandal the order of the day

Posted: 07 Sep 10 | Whoever gets the nod from the three independent MPs to form a minority government will be vulnerable to any unexpected departures, spectacular dummy spits, acts of God or other conniptions inside their own ranks during the next Parliament. |

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Birth of a baby too often kills parental career

Posted: 07 Sep 10 | Expecting total sacrifice to the workplace ignores changes in gender roles. |

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Decide today … the time for procrastination is over

Posted: 07 Sep 10 | The three country independents have reasonably had some breathing space to make up their minds but there is no excuse for any more procrastination. |

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Too much consensus, not too little

Posted: 03 Sep 10 | Rob Oakeshott's appeal for a new era of "consensus politics" is surely the feel-good catchphrase of the moment.It seems to evoke everything for which we yearn: a political culture where politicians stop bickering for sport; where policy ideas are considered on their merits irrespective of their partisan source. |

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In a game of being on target with figures Abbott shoots himself in foot

Posted: 03 Sep 10 | Tony Abbott has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up, helped him successfully flay Labor for profligacy and waste during the election campaign. |

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When do you turn off the cameras?

Posted: 02 Sep 10 | The 24-hour news channels face tricky choices when violence unfolds before our eyes. |

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Opposing same-sex adoption is not bigoted

Posted: 02 Sep 10 | The optimal family arrangement is for a biological mother and biological father raising their children in a committed long-term relationship. Where this is not possible, the next best arrangement should replicate as closely as possible the primary arrangement of biological mother and father. |

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The secret desires of men

Posted: 02 Sep 10 | The secret desires of men, and why they go unfulfilled |

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Labor blows economic trump card - again

Posted: 02 Sep 10 | By formally embracing the left-leaning Greens in a power-sharing agreement, Labor has now made it harder for the trio to justify to their conservative constituencies such a deal with Labor. |

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Media glare is the ace in Fraser-Kirk's hand

Posted: 01 Sep 10 | It's been revealed David Jones agreed to pay Kristy Fraser-Kirk $850,000 just a few days before she decided to pursue the company for $37m. For DJs the pressure to make this case go away is intense. |

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Wilkie's long wish-list

Posted: 31 Aug 10 | Judging by the list of ''priorities'' new Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie served up to Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott yesterday, he'll need an office the size of his home state just to house his ambition. |

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