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PM warns Coalition of electoral annihilation …..
The Prime Minister has warned his colleagues that current opinion polls mean the Coalition would not just lose a federal election, it would be annihilated.
John Howard has told a meeting of Liberal and National MPs the polls show Labor would win emphatically.
He has warned if they are expecting him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he does not have a rabbit.
Mr Howard says one of the reasons the Government is in this position is that the economy is so good, so it is important for the Government to remind people of the consequences of change.
He says it is both a strength and a weakness for the Government that its three most visible members - himself, Peter Costello and Alexander Downer - have held the same jobs since 1996.
Senior Federal Government Ministers have agreed with the Prime Minister's warning.
The Health Minister, Tony Abbott says it is not a new message.
- By Gus Leonisky at 23 May 2007 - 7:26am
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Aidwatch says Australia inflating aid figures
A group monitoring aid programs around the world has criticised Australia's aid program, saying $1 billion of Australia's aid money never leaves the country.
The level of Australia's foreign aid is less than that of other OECD countries and Prime Minister John Howard has promised to raise the budget to $4 billion a year.
But co-director of Aidwatch Kate Wheen says money was spent on programs such as the Federal Government's so-called "Pacific solution" and cancelling Iraqi wheat debt.
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Gus: were the AWB bribes (sorry kickbacks, the ATO... you know...) deducted from all this or is there a little black hole somewhere?
Guys, guys - bribes?