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...announced no fewer than three major investigations in the past month. Last week it issued a new summons against Geoffrey Collier, one of London's leading securities brokers, for allegedly using privileged knowledge of an impending takeover for his personal profit. Said Corporate and Consumer Affairs Minister Michael Howard: "No one can be in any doubt that we regard insider dealing as a thoroughly pernicious practice ... that we are determined to do all in our power to root...
...workaholics need a few days to shoot TV ads, strategize and catch up on recreational reading about monetary policy and political philosophy. With the country's workplaces and schools returning to normal patterns this week, the election campaign has begun?though the poll isn't due until late 2007. Howard is seeking a fifth term and remains the punters' favorite: employment and consumer spending are strong, the Prime Minister is a wily operator, his opponent an inexperienced leader. According to Centrebet, based on a $1 wager, a win for Howard's Liberal-National coalition will return $1.72; one for Labor...
Rudd's team is a little fresher than Beazley's. But Labor's message is essentially the same: Howard's government is tired, it has lost touch with Middle Australia, its changes to workplace relations are extreme, it has neglected the environment, and the country's future wealth will be at risk when the resources boom ends. Somehow, with a mix of clich?s ("Australia has reached a fork in the road") and slogans ("China's quarry and Japan's beach"), Rudd has managed to "cut through"?the dream of political word wranglers. Inevitably, Rudd's success so far has elicited...
While education policy is traditionally a strong suit for Labor, the Howard government is particularly vulnerable to claims that it has neglected this area. Australia ranks low among rich countries on spending for early childhood education, scientific research and development, and vocational skills. The government's top economic bureaucrats have consistently warned of the need to boost productivity and invest in education and skills so as to reduce the future financial burden on younger workers as the boomer generation retires. In the popular mind, Howard's government, which has delivered good economic results for a decade, does not rate highly...
...Academic: from bush school to the Australian National University ? and beyond! Learning is at the "kitchen table" of middle Australian families, to quote the vanquished Beazley; the self-employed and middle-income parents who obsess about education and private-school fees and have lately voted for Howard will take a very close look at Rudd's education policies in the coming months. Of course, if Labor does not cost them properly, or is too cosy with the academics or slipshod about standards, Howard will flay Rudd, just as he demolished Paul Keating, then Beazley, then Simon Crean, then Latham, then...