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Government fiction on Durban deferral and carbon tax pain is happening

  Mark Dreyfus and the Gillard Government are kidding themselves if they think Durban's deferral and agreement to keep talking amount to a break...

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Labor revert to form on Water Reform

    It's often said that reform isn’t easy, and that is absolutely right. Reforming the Murray-Darling Basin is testament to this. It...

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Fighting for the future of our Murray

This article first appeared in The Advertiser SOUTH Australians react with more passion to one issue above all others - management of the River Murra...

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Preference deal paints the Greens as a pack of frauds

 This article first appeared on The Punch on July 20 2010.  Beware the politician who likes to claim moral superiority above other politi...

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Green Loans and insulation-style mess

This article first appeared on The Punch on 14 July 2010 Deaths, house fires and safety concerns have seen the Rudd/Gillard Government and Peter...

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Historic meeting makes history on truly historic day

First published 21 April 2010  on The Punch - www.thepunch.com.au Ever heard the joke about the “historic national agreement”? It was hard to...

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Will Rudd duck questions at Community Cabinet today?

Published 20 January in The Punch - www.thepunch.com.au   Today Kevin Rudd will hold his first Community Cabinet of this election year, bringin...

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The real letter Mike Rann should write to Kevin Rudd

Published 8 January 2010 in The Advertiser and on The Punch - www.thepunch.com.au   In their haste to get an agreement on national management o...

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Call it an ISP filter Kevin but your logic leaks like a sieve

Published on The Punch - 10 November 2009 - www.thepunch.com.au       Much like handing out condoms with the tip cut off won’t help...

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Voting: At what age?

 Published on The Punch - 10 October 2009 - www.thepunch.com.au     Theodore Roosevelt once said “A vote is like a rifle; its useful...

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