Update: Tuesday Newspoll, Coalition leads Labor on two-party vote 52-48. Kevin Rudd is talking about, and no doubt practising, consultation with his colleagues but in fact the shots are all his to call…
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Kevin Rudd has made a minor concession in his sweeping reforms for the future election of Labor leaders, endorsed by a special caucus meeting today. The “trigger” for a leadership spill in opposition will…
Kevin Rudd, who has just experienced political resurrection, professes his strong faith in the supernatural variety in a book on the religious beliefs of Australian prime minister, launched today. Rudd…
With speculation reaching fever pitch about election timing, voters from the bellwether seat of Eden-Monaro are strongly urging Kevin Rudd to call the poll quickly. The University of Canberra, in conjunction…
Kevin Rudd has pulled out every available stop to persuade voters that he can stop the boats - not immediately, but eventually. The Australian government has spectacularly outsourced its asylum seeker…
Kevin Rudd has unveiled a dramatic new hard line policy to stop any asylum seekers arriving by boat ever being settled in Australia. Australia and Papua New Guinea have signed an agreement for people arriving…
The big question for the coming weeks is whether voters’ deep and long-held disillusionment with brand Labor will prevail over their enthusiastic re-engagement with its popular leader. Labor has reached…
Chris Bowen had originally booked into the National Press Club today to talk about his just published Hearts & Minds: A Blueprint for Modern Labor. But as he said, instead of having a backbencher spruiking…
The hung parliament is almost done. Surely we won’t see its return to the chambers. If Kevin Rudd wanted to reassemble the parliament before the election, he would need half a dozen cattle dogs to round…
The government has more than financed the $3.8 billion cost of moving early to an Emissions Trading Scheme, with savings including a crackdown on fringe benefits for cars, cuts to the number of senior…
UPDATE: Later the Indonesian Foreign Minister presented a more hard line view on tow-backs. Tony Abbott has got a useful break from Indonesia over his controversial turn-back-the-boats plan, with Foreign…
As today’s Nielsen poll shows Labor and Coalition 50-50 on the two-party vote, Kevin Rudd is doing what has been expected – he’s narrowing the policy gap between himself and Tony Abbott over carbon pricing…
The federal government expects Victoria to sign up to the Better Schools funding plan next week, and has extended the deadline for negotiations with outstanding states on the package. Victoria and Queensland…
It is so Kevin. A couple of weeks back into the prime ministership, a million things to do – and Rudd’s nipping off to Papua New Guinea. Just wanted to see the regional neighbours, he explained when asked…
Kevin Rudd has set out a “national competitiveness agenda” for Australia and said the nation must lift its annual productivity growth rate to 2% or better. Addressing the National Press Club, the Prime…
Kevin Rudd today will paint Tony Abbott as “Captain Negative”, unwilling to do the hard work needed to develop policies to change the country and guilty of talking Australia down. Appearing at the National…
The government this week is inching forward in its battle to get sign ups to its Better Schools plan – aka Gonski – but it still needs support from Victoria and the Catholics for the great leap that would…
Kevin Rudd has said he wants a referendum within two years of the election to recognise Australia’s Indigenous people in the constitution - and told Tony Abbott to get his act together on the issue. Both…
Every now and then a politician gets caught on the sticky paper. That’s where Tony Abbott was today, and he didn’t cope well. It was always going to be a dog of a morning, with Newspoll showing the vote…
South Australian Independent senator Nick Xenophon is adopting a bargain basement approach to fund raising – donate more than $1500 and you’ll get a partial, or even a full, refund. Xenophon has had a…
Tony Abbott is streets behind Kevin Rudd as preferred PM – tomorrow’s Newspoll has him trailing 22 points - and now findings comparing their personal qualities tell us why. Essential Research has shown…
Kevin Rudd is nothing if not brazen. Less than a fortnight after rolling Julia Gillard he has proposed an historic change that would prevent such a putsch in the future. His radical plan – one of the most…
In yet another iteration of asylum seeker policy, the government now says that people who destroy their documentation will be sent to the back of the processing queue. This is distinguished from the opposition…
With Tony Abbott lagging as preferred PM against Kevin Rudd, Liberal frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull has cast the election as a contest between a presidential pitch and “a traditional cabinet-based, consultative…
Bill Shorten didn’t ask for the Education portfolio but when Kevin Rudd added it to his Workplace Relations job it was familiar territory. Shorten’s mother Ann, who has a PhD in history, is co-author of…
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