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Too much consensus, not too little

Posted: 03 Sep 10 | Rob Oakeshott's appeal for a new era of "consensus politics" is surely the feel-good catchphrase of the moment.It seems to evoke everything for which we yearn: a political culture where politicians stop bickering for sport; where policy ideas are considered on their merits irrespective of their partisan source. |

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In a game of being on target with figures Abbott shoots himself in foot

Posted: 03 Sep 10 | Tony Abbott has been poked in the eye by his own budget costings and his eagerness to spend - the same costings that, when the Coalition added them up, helped him successfully flay Labor for profligacy and waste during the election campaign. |

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When do you turn off the cameras?

Posted: 02 Sep 10 | The 24-hour news channels face tricky choices when violence unfolds before our eyes. |

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Opposing same-sex adoption is not bigoted

Posted: 02 Sep 10 | The optimal family arrangement is for a biological mother and biological father raising their children in a committed long-term relationship. Where this is not possible, the next best arrangement should replicate as closely as possible the primary arrangement of biological mother and father. |

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The secret desires of men

Posted: 02 Sep 10 | The secret desires of men, and why they go unfulfilled |

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Labor blows economic trump card - again

Posted: 02 Sep 10 | By formally embracing the left-leaning Greens in a power-sharing agreement, Labor has now made it harder for the trio to justify to their conservative constituencies such a deal with Labor. |

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Media glare is the ace in Fraser-Kirk's hand

Posted: 01 Sep 10 | It's been revealed David Jones agreed to pay Kristy Fraser-Kirk $850,000 just a few days before she decided to pursue the company for $37m. For DJs the pressure to make this case go away is intense. |

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Wilkie's long wish-list

Posted: 31 Aug 10 | Judging by the list of ''priorities'' new Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie served up to Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott yesterday, he'll need an office the size of his home state just to house his ambition. |

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The human cost of Pakistan's floods

Posted: 27 Aug 10 | Normally, Pakistani women don't like to have their photos taken. It's seen to be undignified. But in the camps and along the side of the roads there's no dignity left, and men and women alike push themselves forward to be photographed, hoping that somehow, it will lead to someone somewhere coming to their assistance. |

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Abbott doesn't want to reach a deal

Posted: 27 Aug 10 | Abbott doesn't want to reach a deal, he wants another election |

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Gillard's flexibility makes her difficult to reject

Posted: 26 Aug 10 | THE de-facto co-prime ministership of Australia began last night when Julia Gillard invited the three rural independent MPs to help her set the date for the next election in three years' time. |

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Revolution of the thinking voter turns politics green

Posted: 25 Aug 10 | Ross Gittins says the only clear winner in this election were the Greens with voters wanting real action on climate change. |

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The Dr & The Colonel's election party

Posted: 25 Aug 10 | WHEN The Doctor and The Colonel aren't secretly recording each other during their meetings, they're keeping an eye on Warrnambool, the south-west and, indeed, the whole of Australia. This week, the dynamic duo hosted an Election Night Party in their secret headquarters. |

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Celebrity sinners fail test of true atonement

Posted: 25 Aug 10 | The one thing the public loves more than a fallen hero is a redeemed sinner, says Nina Funnell. |

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Mavericks saddle up for some old-time wrangling

Posted: 23 Aug 10 | BOB Katter is a larrikin famous for wearing a 10-gallon hat over his shock of white hair, an unabashed protectionist who walked out on the National Party in the lead-up to the 2001 election, declaring Howard government policies had destroyed the livelihoods of tobacco growers in his constituency. |

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A grab for the mantle of moral authority

Posted: 23 Aug 10 | THE people have rejected Labor, but failed to embrace the Coalition. So the two parties are left straining not only for extra seats, but arguing for something grander - legitimacy. |

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Broadband network the one big issue in a desultory campaign

Posted: 20 Aug 10 | It has been a depressing election campaign: a stagnant morass of parochial pork-barrelling, tit-for-tat squabbling and mindless trivia. |

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What's next for the loser?

Posted: 20 Aug 10 | A Liberal loss would herald a generational change, but for Labor it would be devastation. |

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Look to the fringes if you want principles

Posted: 19 Aug 10 | Look to the fringes if you want principles - just ask Turnbull and Brown |

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Felled by green plot

Posted: 19 Aug 10 | Miranda Devine: How green activists targeted and brought down John Gay, the former chairman of Gunns. |

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