In The Australian today:
"Next year, Australians will invest an estimated $2000 each on public infrastructure, from roads and electricity poles to trains and the National Broadband Network. If the Coalition wins on September 7, it needs to bring greater discipline to that spending, ensuring users and taxpayers get value for money. Creating a new department with responsibility for all commonwealth infrastructure decisions should be part of those reforms."

In The Australian today:

"Campaigning is about raising expectations, governing about managing them. The critical question about Tony Abbott's paid parental leave scheme is whether we can afford it."

In the Australian today:
"According to the ALP's "A New Way" ad, "the old politics of negativity just won't work". Luckily, there's a new politics of negativity to replace it: so far, 60 per cent of the election ads posted on Labor's website involve attacks on the Coalition, with the proportion for the Coalition being similar."

In The Australian today:

"Talk about chutzpah. On Tuesday, Treasury and Finance release the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook showing a cumulative deficit from 2008-09 to 2015-16 of $250 billion; but Kevin Rudd calls it "D Day" for the Coalition, as if it was Tony Abbott who had some explaining to do."

In The Australian today:

"Kevin Rudd has at last stopped the boats: the boats that export coal from Australia."

In The Australian today:
"Labor's policy decisions since 2007 increased commonwealth revenues across the 10 years to 2016-17 by $78 billion. At the same time, however, they increased spending by $138bn."