Limping through the first crucial sitting of the Parliament in an election year, members of the Rudd Government are a worried bunch, with marginal seat-holders fearing the worst, and others developing doubts about the capacity of the Prime Minister to lead them over the long term. A Federal Government taskforce has torpedoed the idea of…
Overwhelmingly, Australians want childcare payments made to all families, and they want all mothers to receive the same amount from the government whey they have a child. Currently, childcare payments are paid only to women with paid jobs who put their children in childcare centres; childcare payments discriminate heavily against mothers who raise their children…
For two centuries, the world’s dominant powers, first the United Kingdom, then the United States and its Western alliance, gave the world democracy, human rights and a market economic system. However, as world economic power began to shift from the West to the East, James F. Hoge Jnr, editor of the distinguished Foreign Affairs journal…
Australia’s huge net foreign debt leaves our banks vulnerable to further shocks, following the Commonwealth Government’s end to the guarantee it gave to banks borrowing in the international financial markets. In October 2008, the Rudd Government provided the banks a guarantee on borrowing in the international financial markets, which helped banks access credit following the…