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Hip Hip hooray for Julia Gillard!

Posted: 02 Jul 10 | Finally a Prime Minister with a nasal presence — an event that hasn’t occurred since the Silver Bodgie parked his sizable offering in the Lodge. |

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Another backflip, or sweet reason?

Posted: 02 Jul 10 | THE details leaking out last night suggest the miners have twisted the government's arm a long way. |

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Turnbull on Rudd: Someone should give this poor bastard a hug

Posted: 30 Jun 10 | As I watched the downfall of Rudd, a man with whom I had battled day after day, I could feel the cruel emptiness engulfing him. Someone asked me what I would say to him. There is nothing you can say. All I could think was: ''Someone should give this poor bastard a hug.'' |

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Jasper and Abby leave the Lodge

Posted: 30 Jun 10 | As one Press Gallery journalist said last night on hearing the Rudds were vacating the lodge and leaving the famous Jasper and Abby (cat and dog respectively) behind: "It's always the pets that get it in the neck." |

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Keeping it real on asylum seekers

Posted: 29 Jun 10 | Labor is bleeding voters over the refugee issue. They are losing supporters who advocate a more compassionate view to the Greens, but they are losing people who want the boats stopped to the Coalition. |

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Why Gillard may be leery of the Lodge

Posted: 29 Jun 10 | Julia Gillard doesn't want to move into the Lodge until she gets a democratic tick of approval. Or so she says. Maybe the real reason she is stalling is to test the waters about public reaction to moving her first bloke in there with her. |

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ANALYSIS: Master of all but people

Posted: 25 Jun 10 | KEVIN RUDD'S rise to power was a peculiar triumph over the party's opposition. Caucus didn't like him but the public did. He led no faction and won few friends in Parliament but appealed directly to the Australian people. Rudd rose on the polls and the polls destroyed him. |

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Gillard's fruit bowl runneth over

Posted: 24 Jun 10 | It's bigger than just an inspirational role. Having a woman running the country will continue to challenge our collective notions of what it means to be Australian, to be a leader, to be a woman. |

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Labor wastes a perfectly good PM

Posted: 24 Jun 10 | Labor has just wasted a prime minister, in every sense. The party did exactly what Julia Gillard had been warning supporters against doing for months - it burned through a perfectly electable prime minister in a single term. |

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Rudd's way: From hero to zero

Posted: 24 Jun 10 | KEVIN MICHAEL RUDD, the leader who enjoyed stellar popularity until early this year, now faces the humiliation of being the shortest-serving prime minister in nearly 40 years since the demise of Billy McMahon. |

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Wild burst of anger shears Labor

Posted: 24 Jun 10 | Julia Gillard looks set to become Australia's first female prime minister after Kevin Rudd's support within the party all but evaporates. |

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Amid the poll frenzy, a nation yearns for inspired leadership

Posted: 23 Jun 10 | The buzz around each pre-election poll is often empty and irrational. |

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'One of the worst examples of wartime leadership'

Posted: 22 Jun 10 | With the last two funerals just over, we'll have more departures in coffins from Tarin Kowt, the arrival home, the ceremonials and the weeping of young families. |

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Women are no longer prepared to put up and shut up

Posted: 22 Jun 10 | Sexual harassment needs to be reported, not quietly tolerated. |

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Teflon and the haters of Rudd

Posted: 17 Jun 10 | As soon as Rudd's personal popularity shield started to fall, we began to witness the unedifying spectacle of everyone piling on and kicking a man when he's down ... perhaps it's time to feel sorry for "Heavy Kevvy" and a little in awe of the Prime Minister's thick skin. |

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Boycott Origin says Mundine

Posted: 13 Jun 10 | Indigenous players, it's time to take a stand: back Timana and boycott Origin |

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Living alone offers delights missing from a crowded house

Posted: 11 Jun 10 | Who'd choose life with dubious housemates over a home of one's own? |

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Lessons from Atticus Finch for our race-baiting leaders

Posted: 11 Jun 10 | IT IS almost 50 years since Atticus Finch, the lawyer hero of To Kill a Mockingbird, was first heard. His values are sorely needed in Australia today as our political leaders chase the redneck vote and pander to fear. |

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In miners' war on tax, logic is first casualty

Posted: 10 Jun 10 | Enough is enough. If one more person looks me in the eye and talks about sovereign risk and the new resources tax, I swear I'll strangle them. |

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Polls, hype and a dose of reality

Posted: 08 Jun 10 | The latest Herald/Nielsen poll had the Coalition ahead of Labor by 53 per cent to 47 per cent and the Greens with 15 per cent of the primary vote, a result that ignited some media hyperbole. |

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