Oil hovers near $100 amid Iran tensions Jakarta Post | Crude prices were steady Friday amid a weaker US dollar and expectations that Europe will be able to find oil elsewhere if Iran makes good on its threat to immediately halt exports to the region. | Benchmark crude for March delivery was down 12 US cents at US$99.59 a barrel at late afternoon Bangk...
Libs would do well to channel Howard, not Fraser The Australian | THERE are eerie parallels between the present Labor malaise in Canberra and the final chapter of the Whitlam government. | The Craig Thomson affair adds a whiff of scandal to an accident-prone government. Tony Abbott will be contemplating an early ...
PM could signify change with a nuclear nod The Australian | SO now we know. The Gillard government, on the evidence we have seen so far, is much the same as the Rudd government. | It is prone to springing grand policy initiatives on an unsuspecting electorate without even bothering to talk to those affected...
Tax backlash leaves Gang of Two isolated The Australian | SENIOR Labor figures are distancing themselves from the government's problematic mining tax proposal, with confirmation the Prime Minister and Wayne Swan were largely responsible for developing the policy. | Sources have confirmed that Mr Rudd...
Key ministers eye each other off as Kevin Rudd slips away The Australian | ABSENCE is sometimes a truth unto itself. Hence the following news flash. Kevin Rudd fronted the television cameras yesterday. | For our normally verbose Prime Minister the doorstop was notable for its brevity. The transcript read: "I think it...
Kevin Rudd finds a rich vein to plug holes in budget The Australian | KEVIN Rudd's response to the Henry taxation review reveals the character of this government as it heads into an election it is now worried it may lose. In the face of those fears economic "reform" has become a retreat into a redistri...
Sadly no sign of Iron Lady here The Australian | AGAINST a background of economic chaos in Europe, there is no better time for a movie about Margaret Thatcher. With profligate, supine governments still coming to terms with the damage wrought by their high-spending, big government policies, Thatch...
AP / Darko Vojinovic
Iran warns Gulf Arabs not to boost oil output Richmond Times Dispatch CAIRO -- | Iran warned Gulf Arab oil producers against boosting production to offset any potential drop in Tehran's crude exports in the event of an embargo affecting its oil sales...
PM could signify change with a nuclear nod The Australian | SO now we know. The Gillard government, on the evidence we have seen so far, is much the same as the Rudd government. | It is prone to springing grand policy initiatives on an unsuspecting electorate without even bothering to talk to those affected...
Tax backlash leaves Gang of Two isolated The Australian | SENIOR Labor figures are distancing themselves from the government's problematic mining tax proposal, with confirmation the Prime Minister and Wayne Swan were largely responsible for developing the policy. | Sources have confirmed that Mr Rudd...
Key ministers eye each other off as Kevin Rudd slips away The Australian | ABSENCE is sometimes a truth unto itself. Hence the following news flash. Kevin Rudd fronted the television cameras yesterday. | For our normally verbose Prime Minister the doorstop was notable for its brevity. The transcript read: "I think it...
Kevin Rudd finds a rich vein to plug holes in budget The Australian | KEVIN Rudd's response to the Henry taxation review reveals the character of this government as it heads into an election it is now worried it may lose. In the face of those fears economic "reform" has become a retreat into a redistri...
Sadly no sign of Iron Lady here The Australian | AGAINST a background of economic chaos in Europe, there is no better time for a movie about Margaret Thatcher. With profligate, supine governments still coming to terms with the damage wrought by their high-spending, big government policies, Thatch...
No Hewson-like Fightback For Abbott The Australian | AUSTRALIA has now entered a new phase; the politics of protracted global economic uncertainty that will fundamentally alter the dynamics of the struggle between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. | In the case of the government it will set up a tension...
Nigeria's Boko Haram: Will dialogue end the insurgency? BBC News Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has challenged the Islamist militant group Boko Haram to come forward and state their demands as a basis for dialogue. | His remarks came nearly a week after the group attacked police stations in the northern city of Kano, killing 185 people. | Nigeria's Civil Rights Congress Shehu Sani, a proponent of negotiat...
