Today in The Australian:
"As well as being policy fiascos, the carbon tax, the National Broadband Network and the mining tax have this in common: they were based on economic modelling that has been kept hidden from the public."

In The Australian today:
"According to the government, taxing retirees' superannuation earnings above $100,000 will "enhance the sustainability of retirement incomes" while only affecting 0.5 per cent of retirees who are "fabulously wealthy". Those claims are demonstrably false: should it ever be legislated, the tax would eventually hit millions of Australians and make the superannuation system increasingly unsustainable."

In The Australian today:
"Wayne Swan's woes are even worse than they seem. For the National Broadband Network has blown an additional $10 billion hole in Labor's next budget."

In The Australian today:

"Mark Latham is furious. With the ALP for turning its back on the legacy of economic reform. With Labor's opponents, accused of every possible malfeasance. And perhaps especially with himself, for coming to the leadership "too young" and "with too little life experience".

Today in The Australian:

"Early in 1952, a group of trucking operators decided to protest against the restrictions on interstate road freight imposed by the states to protect their inefficient railways. Placing a copy of the Australian Constitution in a wheelbarrow, the truckers pushed it from Melbourne to Sydney. The journey took 11 days; but that was still two days quicker than a parcel mailed the same day and carried by rail."

From today's The Australian:
"Rushed policy, as Kevin Rudd discovered with the mining tax, is bad politics. And bad politics can be harmful to prime ministers and other animals."