Ross Gittins in today’s Sydney Morning Herald Welcome to another year of media manipulation by our political leaders. Don’t you love it? The Rudd Government is sitting on two major economic reports – from the Henry review on tax reform and Treasury’s third intergenerational report – and some day soon it will let us see [...]

Pundits make their living telling politicians what to do, when to do it, and what they’ve done wrong. It’s opinion, so naturally there are going to be differences across the commentariat. Take, for example, the striking contradiction betwen Ross Gittins yesterday and Dennis Shanahan today. Gittins: PM won’t be a great leader until he plucks [...]