OBAMA'S MIS-STEP

I began this Saturday column looking at President Obama's West Point speech.

I should have made more of an issue of it. It's already become a classic case of leadership failure.

Here's the column:

THE BUDGET

The issue, I reckon, with this Budget isn't that it's harsh. It's that it's selective. 

Trouble selling?

Tuesday's Canberra Times column began examining how . . . 

AN IDEOLOGICAL BUDGET

Political wisdom always insists the first budget should be the harshest.

Is that a tin ear?

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But has this one gone too far?

As I suggest in this column for today's Canberra Times, I think the problem is rather that it doesn't do anything to make Australia 'fairer' . . .

COMMISSION OF AUDIT

My take on the Commission of Audit.

a real feral abacus

As in the Canberra Times on Tuesday . . . 

TOO MUCH IDEOLOGY

Sometimes it's a good thing to be completely ruled by principle. In the real world, however, it's often better to be guided by them instead.

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Sometimes it seems as if it's those who won't compromise on their ideology who often hurt those they most want to help, as this column in the Canberra Times suggested . . .