Bruce Hawker is a leading campaign manager with 30 years experience advising leaders in business and politics. As MD of Campaigns & Communications, Bruce manages crises and plans and executes communications campaigns.
I get nervous when the Green political party starts issuing ultimatums and threatening to act petulantly when important legislation is before the national parliament.
This morning the Green political party's leader, Bob Brown, threatened to reject the Gillard Government's Minerals Resource Rent Tax legislation if it is amended and projected [...]
It’s close to crunch time for the Gillard Government’s Minerals Resource Rent Tax, (MRRT).
The legislation is now under consideration by the Parliament and the votes of key independent MPs Tony Windsor and Andrew Wilkie will be critical to its passage. Neither of these votes is tied up yet, with Tony Windsor wanting more action from the government to determine the environmental safety of and protocols for extracting coal seam gas before the industry is permitted further [...]
Australia has avoided the worst effects of the Global Financial Crisis largely because of China’s continuing high demand for our minerals and the Rudd Labor Government’s $42 billion stimulus package.
The resource rich areas of our country are doing well, while other parts of the economy and many Australians are still hurting.
Under our federation, the more populous and wealthier States, New South Wales and Victoria, have generally subsidised the other [...]
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@nobodysmuppet demand a series of debates leading up to the election. Media should play a role here. Look at US and UK as precedents.
07 June 2013 09:56:52Compulsory electoral funding steers politics away from the people http://t.co/kKEUcwEjVs #auspol
07 June 2013 07:27:33@MikeCarlton01 @apache_2005 "Always the anonymous halfwit with the wild west avatar". They're the people who once scrawled on toilet walls.
07 June 2013 00:15:03