Word: canberras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...local M.P. for Werriwa. He's diligent, serious and bookish - and a seeker of political tutors. His Labor contemporaries never doubted he'd attain the leadership; some of them, however, were surprised by how quickly he got there, how cleverly he played Caucus, the Parliament and the Canberra press gallery to capture public attention. "Who the hell is Mark Latham?" says a senior Labor M.P., recalling reaction to his leader's ascent. "He's the guy who called the P.M. an arselicker and slagged off George Bush. You look back and think, The strategy has paid...
...issues, because his Nanna and Pop retired to the region and he'd spent many school holidays with them. At his first "new politics" outing as leader, he listened with Clintonian empathy for two hours as people spoke about the issues they wanted Latham to take back to Canberra...
...break their habits since heroin supply fell, but drug workers see plenty of others who inject stimulants instead. "Our clients are saying, why waste our money on heroin when it's not very good quality and when ice is so cheap?" says Wendy Macken, head of Directions A.C.T., Canberra's largest non-government drug and alcohol service. "For them it doesn't matter what the effect is, as long as it takes them away from what they were feeling." The result, she says, is a growing number of amphetamine-dependent troublemakers: "With heroin we were resuscitating people...
...infrastructure and human capital. Indeed, these surpluses have been slight exercises in prudence in an era of prosperity. Asset sales, such as the partial float of Telstra, have helped create the illusion of fiscal frugality. Other than two hard years of spending cuts to rein in Labor's excesses, Canberra has barely been squeezed. Compared with the hard, lean predators who dominated the Expenditure Review Committee in the Hawke-Keating years (1983-96), the incumbents are pussycats. On Sept. 10, the Commonwealth Treasury and Finance Department, under the charter of Budget honesty, released an up-to-date fiscal and economic...
...surprising aspect of Latham's short time at the Labor helm has been his political outmaneuvering of a P.M. with 30 Canberra years on the clock. Think M.P.s' superannuation entitlements and the amendments forced on Howard over the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. These episodes - and several others - reveal that Latham has terrific instincts for the nitty-gritty of daily political combat. But the truly amazing feature of the rise of Latham during an election year has been that the one-time policy wonk has opted for slogans rather than details, symbols instead of costed measures. We've heard...