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  • OK Nats, We See that Muscle

    By wpx_ic | November 29, 2013

    By Michelle Grattan on Fri, 29-11-2013 Joe Hockey decided to end the agony early. He had given himself until December 17 to pronounce on the $3.4 billion Archer Daniels Midland bid for agri-giant GrainCorp. But more delay would only deepen the divisions – especially with Senate committee hearings scheduled for Monday and Tuesday next week.The Treasurer’s decision…

  • Keating Channels De Gaulle

    By wpx_ic | November 29, 2013

    It wasn’t only clocks that Paul Keating brought back from Paris: in his interview with Kerry O’Brien on Tuesday night the former Prime Minister, in a statement eerily reminiscent of President De Gaulle’s famous declaration: “L’état c’est moi”, said “The public record shows that from 1984 on I was the driving force of the Government”.This…