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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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Food for thought while millions die of hunger

Posted: 08 Jun 10 | The world is rapidly moving towards disaster, whether you call it doomsday or apocalypse...We face a global food shortage, the like of which the world has never seen. |

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In China, the party always starts at the top

Posted: 08 Jun 10 | In China, the red phone is the ultimate status symbol - and we need to understand why, writes Peter Hartcher. |

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You go, girls: we're just so over Sex

Posted: 28 May 10 | Wouldn't it be great if there were just one character of real substance in the fading female pantheon of Sex and the City? Say, someone like Eleanor Roosevelt? (''Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.'') |

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Book publishers look forward to the Apple Effect

Posted: 27 May 10 | When Apple devotees finally get their gleaming new iPads tomorrow, they won’t be able to download any Australian titles from Apple’s iBookstore. |

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Di hard with a vengeance, starring Princess Kristina

Posted: 27 May 10 | NSW Premier Kristina Keneally is following a tried and true formula |

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