Air farce

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Issues concerning the prospect of publicly-funded support for the failing airline Ansett are discussed. The role of Labor leader Kim Beazley and Liberal Prime Minister John Howard in supporting an airline duopoly is explored.

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Air farce

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Issues are presented concerning the proposal put forward by the leader of the National Party John Anderson regarding the public funding of the airline Ansett. The political aspects of the proposed subsidy are discussed.

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The lords of misrule

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Peter Costello's sixth budget has received broad praise for being responsible and clever, but some see it as a simple balancing of claims of competing interest groups to boost government returns at the ballot.

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