From today's The Australian:
"Arrogance is the curse of those long on power and short on wisdom. Little wonder, then, that Stephen Conroy has announced his media reforms as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition, giving parliament no time to consider, much less amend, legislation it has not yet seen and will not see until the last moment."

In The Australian today:

As Labor reels federally, demonising the Liberal premiers has become Wayne Swan's stock in trade. A man who makes enemies effortlessly, the outcomes of his strategy in Western Australia speak for themselves. But, as a Queenslander, the Treasurer has focused his attacks on Campbell Newman, denouncing his spending reductions as "unnecessary" while claiming they are "in stark contrast to those of the Gillard government".

In The Australian today:
"The goal of the "Give a Gonski" campaign is not a revolution; it is a counter-revolution. Its targets are changes taking place in the Coalition states that bring greater autonomy to government schools, devolve more control from bureaucrats to parents and principals, and increase school choice."

In The Australian today:
The impasse in Rome is bad news for Italy and Europe’s economic prospects.

In The Australian today:

"Campaigning is the enemy of governing. And while the prospect of being hanged concentrates the mind wonderfully, the moments before the high jump are rarely spent developing sound public policy. The Howard government's water initiative, launched in 2007 just after Labor's sharp rise in the polls, was public policy at its worst; the Gillard government's jobs plan provides it with a worthy competitor."

In The Australian today:

"Now we know. Locked away in Parliament House were the world's largest miners. In strode the new Prime Minister and her Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, with a spring in their step and fresh blood on their hands. As the execution of Kevin Rudd had shown, it wasn't that they lacked scruples; they simply wouldn't let them get in their way. And so our capi dei capi made the miners an offer they couldn't refuse. "