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Gillard goes where no man can

February 23, 2009 – 9:04 pm

Gillard got stuck into Pyne in the Parliament today:
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard mocked the Coalition for choosing Christopher Pyne as the manager of opposition business, rather than Tony Abbott, who did the job in Government.
“In a choice between macho and mincing I would have gone for macho myself,” she said.
“The leader of the Opposition [...]

At last some sense on student unionism

November 3, 2008 – 11:44 am

One of the silliest, and stupidly destructive, decisions of the Howard Government was the introduction of ‘voluntary student unionism’. This was an ideological battle left over from the 1970s that had remained an obsession with people like Tony Abbott, Peter Costello and Eric Abetz.
All that happened was that services provided on campuses around the [...]