The Daily Telegraph
Wayne Swan says the federal opposition has vindicated his argument that a small number of wealthy Australians are mobilising their wealth against policies in the national interest. In a essay published in The Monthly magazine last Friday, Mr Swan...
The Courier-Mail
S planned mining tax is in the national interest despite what the mining magnates say, according to federal government frontbencher Craig Emerson. Fortescue Metals took out full-page ads in newspapers on Monday rejecting recent criticism by Treasurer...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Mr Swan triggered the latest row with his essay in The Monthly in which he accused "vested interests" of undermining Australia's democracy and sense of equality...Mr Palmer, who is also a member of the Liberal National Party and was granted national...
The Age
Story continues below He said the presence of vested interests had been obvious in "ferocious and highly misleading" campaigns waged against the federal Labor government's mining tax and pricing carbon plans. Mr Hockey condemned Mr Swan's "use of...
The Age
Story continues below ''This poison has infected our politics and is seeping into our economy,'' he writes. ''Though these vested interests have not yet prevailed, every day their demands get louder.'' In Australia, the battle for class division...