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newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Sep 12, 2008
Also tagged: cartoon, peter costello, janette howard, bill leak
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Aug 14, 2008
In the wake of the recent changes to our policy on refugee detention, I find myself embarrassed and ashamed. What has happened to this great and decent country? Am I the only one who thinks this way? I am not talking …
Also tagged: human rights, featured, detention, kevin rudd, civil society, detention centres, mandatory detention, ezequiel trumper
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Jun 23, 2008
They say you finish up with the face you deserve. I’m not sure that’s right. It seems to me that most people who deserve bad faces are either so rich that they can afford a special cream to smooth out the wrinkles …
Also tagged: hero, federal politics, howard government, australian politics, david horton
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - May 15, 2008
The publication of the Janette Howard diaries will send further shockwaves through the embattled Federal Liberal Party. Or at least they would do, if they existed. Extracts from Cherie Booth’s diaries recently …
Also tagged: hillary clinton, cherie blair, peter costello, liberal party, has beens, cherie booth, malcolm turnbull, australian politics, brendan nelson, liberal leadership, mark latham
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Apr 22, 2008
One of the most interesting things about the Australia 2020 Summit has been its accentuation of a trend that was already evident: a shift in focus to long term issues and their possible solutions, which I suspect will …
Also tagged: climate change, media, labor, featured, coalition, andrew bolt, republic, 2020, kevin rudd, culture wars, alexander downer, australian politics, brendan nelson, 2020 summit, annabel crabb, janet albrechtsen
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Apr 11, 2008
Everyone loves a good list. Just look at the upcoming 2020 Summit. Lists of agenda items, lists of participants, lists of responses, lists of worthies who are pro and those who are contra … the lists go on. read more
Also tagged: media, featured, nicholas sarkozy, 2020, kevin rudd, federal politics, carla bruni, australian politics, 2020 summit, paul keating
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Mar 14, 2008
It is to be expected that a new government coming into office will take time to settle in, read the files and gradually get used to the idea of being in power. In doing that the Rudd Government is no different to the …
Also tagged: featured, civil society, federal politics, howard government, australian politics
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Mar 8, 2008
Yesterday, as part of his gig as the 2008 recipient of the Irving Kristol award, our ex-PM John Howard, told a group of American neo-conservatives that in the struggle against Islamic extremism there will be "no …
Also tagged: politics, hero, malcolm fraser, australian politics, beyond blue, irving kristol award, jeff kennett
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Mar 6, 2008
Yesterday, as part of his gig as the 2008 recipient of the Irving Kristol award, our ex-PM John Howard, told a group of American neo-conservatives that in the struggle against Islamic extremism there will be "no …
Also tagged: retirement, hero, malcolm fraser, australian politics
newmatilda.com - Independent news, analysis and satire - Feb 26, 2008
John Howard was often accused of emulating Robert Menzies, but as former Victorian Liberal MP Robert Dean recently observed in The Age, the only things Howard has in common with Menzies are longevity and a brand name …
Also tagged: featured, malcolm fraser, peter costello, liberal party, federal politics, robert hill, australian politics