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Compulsory retirement saving is working well
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Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has "social inclusion" tacked onto her main ministries of workplace relations and education
08 July 2008
Ross Garnaut's report is just four days old and already one of the questions he raised about the climate change problem - whether it might be too hard for rational policymaking - looks like an understatement.
07 July 2008
Declaring Australia's policy on foreign investments to be blind to country of origin, Treasurer Wayne Swan on Friday went on to recount the current and recent levels of investment proposals from China and no other country
07 July 2008
Look across Asia and it is hard to find a country that has more going for it than Malaysia, with its abundant natural resources, British administrative heritage, plenty of space and diverse ethnic culture
05 July 2008
Ross Garnaut, the government's climate change adviser, is building a strong case for an emissions trading scheme with teeth and bite
04 July 2008
The Council of Australian Governments has had a chequered history since being brought into being 16 years ago by former Labor prime minister Paul Keating
03 July 2008
There is no precedent for the adventure that the Rudd government embarks on in earnest this month
02 July 2008
Tomorrow's Council of Australian Governments meeting cannot compete with emissions trading - the biggest economic decision facing any Australian government since World War II - for public attention
02 July 2008
Kevin Rudd's week has not been entirely black
01 July 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd vowed on Sunday to make tough decisions to secure the economic future of Australia, and hang the electoral consequences, after a big swing against his government in the Gippsland byelection
30 June 2008
State treasurers were crowing about their efforts in cutting taxes as they delivered their budgets this year
30 June 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd didn't expect a miracle in Gippsland, the regional Victorian federal seat held by the Nationals since World War I
28 June 2008
Everybody loves getting a cheque in the mail or, these days, an electronic payment into their bank account
27 June 2008
The most intractable problems facing the Rudd government boil down to the division of commonwealth and state powers agreed 108 years ago at federation
27 June 2008
Despite global anger at Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe - who is now just a front for a security force junta - he is going ahead with a show run-off election today against no candidate, and will claim he has won.
26 June 2008
There is bad luck, bad timing and bad management
25 June 2008
There are two truisms about the Australian health-care system
24 June 2008
The politics of energy, always volatile, are turning combustible
23 June 2008
Among the wreckage that Irish voters made of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty is a nasty little canard that needs to be disposed of quickly
23 June 2008
Australians are wedded to the dream of home ownership
21 June 2008
Richard Pratt, self-confessed price fixer, is "shocked" that he now faces charges of lying to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission investigators
20 June 2008
Despite the rise in world energy prices and the credit crunch, the global economy is still displaying a fair degree of resilience
19 June 2008
The federal government is working itself into a pantomime display of indignation at the coalition's decision to refer budget measures to Senate committees while it still holds sway in the upper house
19 June 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's energetic "middle power" diplomatic activism comes as no surprise
18 June 2008
It's not much of a reprieve, but it's a reprieve all the same
18 June 2008
The modernisation of Australia's legal system has been like strapping motors to the hooves of a Clydesdale: it whirs faster, but belongs to a different era
17 June 2008
The inflation genie is out of the bottle and the federal Labor government has big plans for workplace reform
16 June 2008
NSW Education and Workplace Relations Minister John Della Bosca has received his red card for withholding information about the apology he extracted from the manager of a Central Coast nightclub from Premier Morris Iemma
16 June 2008
Dealing with Indonesia can be tricky territory for new Australian prime ministers with competing demands from various interest groups at home and a history of diplomatic eruptions periodically occurring in Jakarta.
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