Cabinet
Labor's Carr trick brings Australia within a whisker of US cabinet model
Peter Costello A big difference between Australian government and the US's is the way a cabinet is chosen. The US president can choose from an unlimited pool - a Wall Street executive to become treasurer; a retired...
New minister ready in cabinet makeover
The ACT Government used yesterday's elevation of a fifth minister to carry out a significant cabinet reshuffle.
Virtual Community Cabinet
LIVE: Join ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher and her frontbench colleagues for the third #ACTVCC.
ACT cabinet Twitters away to community
The ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher's office declared the Government's third "virtual community cabinet" yesterday a success.
Michelle Grattan
Semantics cannot hide rift in cabinet
Michelle Grattan PM and her ministers attempted to reconcile conflicting accounts of foreign worker deal.
New broom can make a mess
Jack Waterford Nothing erodes effectiveness more than constant reorganisation, rebadging and reshuffling at the top
Trouble brews in the now half-full glasses of Labor's eternal pessimists
Mark Kenny Gary Gray is probably not the first frontbencher you would choose to channel Comical Ali – Saddam's insanely optimistic information minister who insisted victory was assured even as Baghdad...
Analysis
A magic act that stretches credulity
Michael Gordon If politics was purely numbers Rudd would be made Prime Minister. But it ain't that simple.
Comment
So, what are your plans for abortion Mr Abbott?
Leslie Cannold Assurances that Abbott would not tamper with abortion laws are simply not specific enough.
Freelancing the Labor Party boil
Mark Kenny Doug Cameron is not one to take backward steps and wasn't doing so on Wednesday.
Spin triers won't wash, say Labor plain speakers
Mark Kenny Doug Cameron isn't one to take backward steps and he wasn't doing so on Wednesday morning when he made repeated media appearances variously explaining, justifying, and validating, what looked like a...
First a message from the trenches
Judith Ireland Earlier this week, Joel Fitzgibbon, the member for Hunter and Jokes A Go-Go, made major fun of the fact that Labor MPs were given talking points.
Martin Ferguson's resignation speech
Martin Ferguson Martin Ferguson AM MP – Speech to the House of Representatives
Poll bias can be educational
John Warhurst Efforts should always be made to take these preconceptions into account if a balanced outcome is to be achieved.
Seeing sense as end nears
Peter Hartcher Labor's budget this week is like the pyramid of an Egyptian pharaoh, says one of the party's federal MPs: "Gillard is building the monuments for her legacy, and she's sacrificing us slaves in the...
When the numbers don't add up, Swan is surplus to requirements
Chris Berg They say every political career ends in failure. But some more than others. All the evidence suggests Wayne Swan's sixth budget, released last Tuesday, will be his last.
Industrial lite on the hill
Michael Gordon Tony Abbott has produced a minimalist industrial relations policy with a bold objective - to eliminate what he considers the biggest threat to a Coalition victory in September.
EXCLUSIVE
Combet blasts ALP whingers
Chris Johnson Senior cabinet minister Greg Combet has attacked some of his Labor Party colleagues as ''whingers'' in an angry and expletive-laden speech to supporters and donors, expressing his frustration at...
Gallagher backs paid parking - but wants funds to stay local
Emma Macdonald and Tom McIlroy Canberra workers and visitors to national institutions will be forced to cough up almost $74 million in new parking fees in the Parliamentary Triangle and at Acton over the next three years.
Black and white Year One
Jack Waterford Tony Abbott's plan to put a sub-department of Aboriginal affairs inside his own portfolio of Prime Minister and Cabinet has achieved some publicity as an evidence of his good intentions in the area.
