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PM may end up dumped in a ditch 21 Comments | Permalink Simon Benson Blog Simon Benson Monday, June 07, 2010 at 11:25pm KEVIN Rudd is in serious trouble. And it’s not the electorate he should be worried about. It’s a cabal of powerbrokers and his own MPs. According to the mathematical Continue Reading →
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Australia has near full-employment, a strongly rebounding economy and interest rates are about 2 percentage points lower than they were at the last election.
Yet the government is on the nose and the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, rivals Pim Verbeek as the most unpopular person in the country.
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There has never been a better opportunity to protect Australia’s remaining native forests.
The growth of overseas and Australian timber plantations and a dwindling market for its product means the logging industry is in crisis.
Some companies are even asking conservationists for help to get out.
There is also unprecedented public support for ending logging in native forests.
Kristina Keneally’s flat plague
AN UNHERALDED State Government concession changing the rules on how much public transport must be nearby for developments to be approved could open the way for strips of high-rise flats, councils have warned.
Rules on affordable housing construction were quietly changed last September while Premier Kristina Keneally was planning minister so blocks of flats could be built within 400m of a bus stop which had services running from 6am to 6pm Monday to Friday only.
Previously the requirement had been a need for bus services to run from 6am to 9pm seven days a week.
The Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils warned yesterday the change meant high-rise could now occur in “nearly any Sydney residential street”.
June 15, 2010
THE Keneally government will take more than a quarter of the $30 increase given to single aged pensioners who live in public housing, despite a federal rebuke and pleas from seniors groups.
From September, public housing tenants in NSW will be forced to dip into the welfare boost granted by the federal government last year to help pensioners cope with the increased cost of food, medicines and electricity.
The clawback was revealed indirectly in last week’s state budget which failed to protect the full pension increase.
The Queensland, Northern Territory, South Australia and Tasmanian governments have agreed that the $30 increase will never be included in public housing rent calculations, which are usually pegged at 25 per cent of the pension base rate.
June 14, 2010
SENIOR ministers have rallied around Kevin Rudd in a bid to kill off nagging leadership speculation as the Prime Minister resolved to take personal control of the mining tax negotiations to try to bring the damaging dispute to an end.
With Parliament entering what could be its final fortnight of sittings tomorrow before an election is called, ministers and factional bosses, both on and off the record, stressed yesterday there were no moves afoot to replace the Prime Minister with Julia Gillard or anyone else to try to revive the government’s flagging fortunes.