End the embarrassing squabble and vote for change
Ross Peake Today the Senate has a duty to shift the pall of inaction that hangs over our elected representatives.
It's no happy anniversary as new taxes loom and polls point south
Ross Peake Today's caucus meeting is a significant waypoint for Labor.
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More misery ahead as Gillard buries debate
Ross Peake The Craig Thomson saga cannot be resolved because the Labor minority government is focused on survival, at all costs.
Labor will continue to bleed over this affair
Ross Peake The Gillard government will continue to bleed over the Craig Thomson saga.
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Thomson living in his own fantasy land
Ross Peake Julia Gillard won't be in Parliament on Monday to hear the heroic attempt by Craig Thomson to explain the indefensible.
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Labor desperate to dig their way out of a hole
Ross Peake Taxpayers will soon be paying $270,000 a day in government advertising to be told just how good the carbon tax is.
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Abbott's 'clarion call' to Labor heartland
Ross Peake Tony Abbott's speech to Parliament last night was all politics and no economic details.
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City hung out to dry in austerity drive
Ross Peake It's now clear that this is the budget that breaks Canberra's heart.
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Now hear this: but will anyone listen?
Ross Peake The overarching question for Labor about today's budget is not whether it is good for you and me but whether anyone is still listening to the government's messages.
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Tricky question is, where to from here?
Ross Peake How could Julia Gillard's leadership implode so quickly and spectacularly just a few months after her decisive win over Kevin Rudd?
PM must find a way to deal with the politics of carbon tax
Ross Peake The expected cut in interest rates by the Reserve Bank today will do nothing to save Julia Gillard.
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When slim pickings make for slim margins
Ross Peake As Labor MPs gloomily ponder the implosion of the minority government, they are probably correct to speculate that the timing of the scandal surrounding Peter Slipper was instigated by the Liberals...
Slipper saga a serious blow to recovering PM
Ross Peake The scandal surrounding Peter Slipper is a serious blow for Julia Gillard, because it not only draws attention to her government's precarious parliamentary position but also raises questions about...
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Gillard budgets for her own rescue mission
Ross Peake Julia Gillard's challenge to the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates shows a new determination to get her government on the front foot and be seen to be responsive to ''ordinary'' Australians.
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Again, agreement set to go down the basin
Ross Peake It was no coincidence that Victoria slammed the door two days ago on forging agreement with Julia Gillard on an issue vital to the nation.
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Thomson saga drags on and on
Ross Peake Fair Work Australia's inept handling of the sensitive allegations of corruption against a union has damaged its patron, Julia Gillard.
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Takeaway message is integrity
Ross Peake The scary thought for Julia Gillard is that many voters apparently believe her carbon tax is already operating.
Warning signs that PM can't just ignore
Ross Peake The electoral tsunami that wiped out Queensland Labor cannot be shrugged off by Julia Gillard as being exclusively based on state issues.
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Qld: another thorn in Labor's side
Ross Peake Julia Gillard's euphoria over the passage of the mining tax will be severely dented as the ramifications sink in from today's expected conservatives' landslide in Queensland.
