Rudd's Vision Of The Family Needs Work

KEVIN RUDD has placed "working families" at the centre of his campaign. For those of us who have been lobbying in favour of unregulated child labour for years, the popularisation of this vision of a society in which every member of every family will "work", not just the parents as in the bad old days of the Howard Government, has been a considerable boon.

Future Senator Rejects Firm's Advances

THE powerful Labor lobbying firm Hawker Britton has made its most audacious recruiting bid yet - by trying to snaffle the party's outgoing NSW general secretary, Mark Arbib, before he takes his place in the Senate in July.

Minister Cleared Of Lobbying For Contracts

MAJOR Projects Minister Theo Theophanous has been cleared of accusations he tried to influence a ministerial colleague over a tender for multimillion-dollar contracts.

Petition To Clean Up Park

A GROUP of elderly East Maitland residents is lobbying Maitland City Council to dismantle a park near their homes claiming it has become a haven for drug use and antisocial behaviour.