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PM’s climate change prov...
By Piers Ackerman Fortunately, and perhaps accidentally, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s own hand-picked climate change guru, Professor Ross Garnaut, has now driven a truck through its principal argument. In the 10 months since Rudd, Treasurer Wayne Swan, Climate Change Minister Penny Wong and Environment Minister Peter Garrett have held office, the Government has constantly decried and denigrated as...
Rudd is testing the patien...
By Steve Lewis NINE months after being elected with a sweeping mandate to transform the nation, Kevin Rudd risks losing the goodwill of the people. While Labor’s vote and the PM’s ratings remain strong, a sense of disappointment is taking hold across the electorate. Voters are looking for more flair from a leader who sometimes seems to be going through the robotic motions of a clueless bureaucrat....