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Entries for June 2008
27 June 2008
Recently, we have stumbled upon our new favourite park – emBARKation park in Potts Point, or as we like to call it, BarkPark. It’s at the end of Victoria Street Potts Point, in a green space on the roof of the navy carpark. We love it because it’s fu... Read more
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26 June 2008
Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Right at the heart of the Rudd Government is an emptiness - a vacuum between the rhetoric and the reality; between the empathy and the action.
All last year Kevin Rudd wandered around Australia, in and out of ... Read more
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21 June 2008
It was like pulling teeth, but after 24 hours and four questions the Prime Minister finally confirmed that he stood by the five week old inflation forecasts in his own Budget.
Yesterday Mr Rudd stated in Parliament that the inflation forecast for 20... Read more
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21 June 2008
Wayne Swan must answer questions today about why Treasury advice has again been ignored by Government.
The report in The Australian (20/6/08) concerning Treasury’s ignored advice regarding the issue of subsidies for the automotive industry is just t... Read more
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21 June 2008
Anne Henderson’s biography of Enid Lyons is a revelation of a world that has passed into history and a woman whose place in history has been neglected.
Dame Enid Lyons was not just the first woman to sit in the House of Representatives or ... Read more
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20 June 2008
Source: Parliament House
The Government’s failure to address cost of living and other economic pressures faced by Australians and the consequent collapse in consumer and business confidence
Mr TURNBULL (Wentworth) (4.16 pm)—Right at the hear... Read more
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12 June 2008
Today’s Westpac-Melbourne Institute Consumer Sentiment survey results are of great concern.
The level of the index fell by 5.6 per cent in June to 84.7, down from 89.8 in May.
Consumer confidence held up well throughout the Howard years... Read more
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12 June 2008
Is the Australian motorist caught in a perfect storm?
Petrol is at an all-time high, driven by insatiable and growing demand for oil in the developing world and the prospect of declining supplies from the oilfields of the world.
At the same time, t... Read more
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6 June 2008
Source: Parliament House
Mr TURNBULL (Wentworth) (6.36 pm)— I strongly support the object of this legislation, the Same-Sex Relationships (Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws—Superannuation) Bill 2008. Discriminating against people on the ba... Read more
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