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• Promises were made to be broken

  
  IAIN HALL — Authority: 132
  So Brother Number One has failed to deliver on a promise, well who is surprised?KEVIN Rudd’s promise to build 35 GP super clinics across the nation appears to be in tatters, with only one completed centre in operation after two years of Labor government.The Australian can reveal that despite the Prime Minister’s ...
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• Stop messing with people’s basic needs, Rudd warns Westpac

  
  Lending Central — Authority: 138
  Westpac points out it’s not the discount airline of banking, but comparing itself instead to a banana smoothie seller has done little to soothe its relationship with the prime minister.Westpac remains unapologetic over raising its standard variable mortgage rate by nearly double last week’s official cash rate ...
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• Victorian Premier ‘too busy’ to meet Dalai Lama

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Melbourne, Dec.9 (ANI): Victorian Premier John Brumby, it seems, is too busy to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.The latter addressed Victorian politicians at a reception at parliament house on Wednesday, but Brumby was noticeably absent, reports The Australian. The Dalai Lama spoke to over 100 people ...
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• How not to defend an big increase in mortgage rates: talk about banana smoothies

  
  The Rates Blog — Authority: 576
  By Bernard Hickey Westpac has sent customers in Australia a video using the analogy of banana smoothie prices going up after a storm to justify a big increase in its variable mortgage rate. This has sparked outrage across the ditch, as much for the ham-fisted and patronising delivery as the mortgage rate increase ...
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• Closer to a world government

  
  Right Pulse — Authority: 132
  If the massive swings against the ALP in the middle class to low income booths of the recent by-elections are anything to go by, Rudd is losing the argument on climate change and especially on carbon tax and trade (CTT). So what does  any good socialist do when they are losing or have lost the argument through a ...
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• Tony Abbott and the politics of denialism

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 560
  Tony Abbott appears to have taken that gospel saying about being “cunning as a serpent” to heart, if not the bit about being “gentle as a dove”. The problem with the media cycle these days for the political obfuscator is that it’s harder to say one thing to one audience and one to another – always one of ...
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• Australia’s Copenhagen Commitment Shaken By Hunger Striking ‘Victim of Global Warming”

  
  Agmates Rural News — Authority: 99
  Australian farmer Peter Spencer is in the 16th day of a hunger strike. He is sitting on a 2 metre platform high up on a 300 foot pole on his farm.Australia’s King of Talk back radio Alan Jones interview Peter by mobile phone this morning. Click the image to go to the 2GB site and [...]
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• Pacific Think Tank Urges Policy Shift on Climate Change

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  On the eve of key climate talks in Copenhagen, an independent Pacific think tank has called for world leaders attending the conference to hear the region’s plight in battling rising sea levels. With the low-lying Pacific nations struggling to adapt to a changing environment brought about by climate change, the ...
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• The Australian government has no idea what’s happening in Palestine

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 442
  Michael Shaik, from Australians for Palestine, on Australia’s slavish support for Israel : Just last week, at a Sydney lunch for a delegation, led by Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, Rudd asserted “the Australian people’s deep and high regard for the modern state of Israel”. And on Sunday ...
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• ABC3’s launch night attracts children from all over Australia…

  
  what's on THE TUBE! — Authority: 123
  The launch of ABC3 on Friday night has delivered the national broadcaster some encouraging results with the channel reaching 15% of 5 to 12 year olds in metro cities since launch day. The introduction programme on ABC1 which featured Prime Minister Kevin Rudd activating the channel attracted a five city total people ...
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• Australia trades any good will towards Tamils for a cheap buck

  
  Antony Loewenstein — Authority: 442
  Western Australia human rights group Project Safecom released a statement yesterday that captured the hypocrisy at the heart of Australia’s foreign policy. We care about human rights until we don’t. In other words, human rights is far less important than keeping rogue states on side for trade or diplomatic ...
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• Avery: Are Politics Realigning for a Non-Warming Planet? (PJM Exclusive)

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 818
  Recent events suggest Climategate has already shifted politics towards the reality of a world without man-made global warming.
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• Essential Report Abbott vs. Rudd

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 469
  The first poll to measure Abbott and Rudd head to head on political qualities is Essential Report , this week coming in with the primaries running 46 (down 1) / 34 (down 1) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 58/42 the same way – steady from last week. The Greens are on 9 (up 1) ...
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• Hold on a second…

  
  Thinkers' Podium — Authority: 121
  I recently confessed that while I rather deeply loathe the politics of Tony Abbott, I somewhat like the guy. Essentially because of his tendency to take it on the chin, rather than kick up a hissy fit in the same way that all of his predecessors since… Well since I was too young to notice them not having hissy fits. ...
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• Mary Wade

  
  The Girl Who Wished She Was Australian — Authority: 423
  I know who Mary Wade is, because I ran into her the other day. Shes the convict who came over when she was very young. Was it eleven? Twelve? I thought her story would be interesting, so I added her to my list. But then I realized I had ALREADY added her to the list...back when I had added all those other ...
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• Abbott gamble pays off for Libs

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  LIBERAL Party support has bounced back and Tony Abbott has cut into Kevin Rudds lead as preferred prime minister within a week of the newly elected Leader of the Opposition spectacularly reversing the Liberals stand on climate change and rejecting Labors ETS. As the Liberals declared clear victories in the Melbourne ...
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• Newspoll Tuesday – No Bounce Edition

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 469
  Now in new Monday flavor – Abbott’s first Newspoll outing has the primaries coming in 43 (steady) / 38 (up 3) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 56/44 the same way – a 1 point gain to the Coalition. The Greens are on 11 (down 1) while the broad “Others” are sitting on 8 (down ...
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• Even the SMH says it’s the government that’s in denial

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 147
  Painful reading Paul Sheehan, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , has some painful home truths for Labor: When Julia Gillard faced the media outside Federal Parliament in Canberra on Wednesday she looked shell-shocked . She then proceeded to give the most jittery, hollow, nonsensical performance of her ...
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• Rudd the autograph hunter

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 147
  Please Mr Obama! Look where Barack Obama is, and there you’ll find our lap-dog Prime Minister, hanging on to the One’s coat-tails. So it’s no surprise that Rudd has changed his Copenhagen plans in response to Obama’s change of plan. KEVIN Rudd has shelved plans for an early dash to Copenhagen after US ...
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• My Kinda Humour

  
  No Minister — Authority: 551
  Tim Blair has my kind of humour. Nearly choked on my coffee when I read this headline. Prime Ministalker
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