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...Spin Kevin Rudd's term of office has seen him remain popular, although he has junked many of the economic promises he made [July 13]. He has failed to deliver results to indigenous Australians and he has delivered no substantial results to reduce carbon emissions. I understand the realpolitik of managing the Australian-U.S.-China relationship, but Rudd is the master of self-promotion: great on words but short on action. I would have called him Mr. Posturing, not Mr. World. Martin Gordon, CANBERRA...
...Spin Kevin Rudd's term of office has seen him remain popular, although he has junked many of the economic promises he made [July 13]. He has failed to deliver results to indigenous Australians and he has delivered no substantial results to reduce carbon emissions. I understand the realpolitik of managing the Australia-U.S.-China relationship, but Rudd is the master of self-promotion: great on words but short on action. I would have called him Mr. Posturing, not Mr. World. Martin Gordon, Canberra...
Spend for Success Michael Scherer asks "What Happened to the Stimulus?" [July 13]. Why should a project that keeps poor, young people occupied and off the streets be termed "silly?" $620,000 for the renovation of a skateboard park seems a small price to pay for the potential long-term benefits of providing young people with something to do - all parents know that idle kids make trouble. Isn't it rather more shortsighted to spend billions on road-building, thus encouraging even more cars on the roads and creating ever-increasing greenhouse-gas emissions? This seems like a case...
...computers. To the company, that bodes well for the future. "We believe giving [consumers] this first digital identity will be a way of getting [them] later on into all sorts of other Internet services," says Alex Lambeek, Nokia's vice president for entry devices. "There's a longer-term thinking behind this...
...fair go and by comparison with other countries we are conservative. Kevin Rudd has had his fair go and the jury is in. Unfortunately, Rudd has proven to embody the current zeitgeist in liberal democracy: that of spin and the contrived press conference over any substance or long-term vision. Australians, spoiled by boom times that fiscal discipline and staunch leadership had delivered over the course of the previous decade, treated themselves to a new pair of shoes when electing Rudd back in late 2007. Great marketing in the purest sense. As a result of flash-in-the-pan stimulus...