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SMH: Cash-strapped unis target marginal seats - The state of universities is set to become a pivotal Federal election issue. Academics and local communities are joining together in an unprecedented campaign to target marginal Coalition-held seats.

SMH: Chastened Prime Minister listening ... but not always hearing - It's not just the economy, stupid. After three consecutive poll disasters for the Coalition, it seems the Prime Minister is increasingly keen to get that message across.

SMH: Cheap politics or not, the sacrificial elephant is enjoying the stampede - John Howard was sounding extremely firm and more than a little irritated.

SMH: Chika canes NSW teachers - Education in NSW was still in the 19th century and teachers did not know how to encourage innovation and creativity, Opposition Leader Kerry Chikarovski said yesterday.

SMH: Child abuse inquiry a 'whitewash' - The Immigration Minister, Mr Ruddock, was accused yesterday of turning a blind eye to child abuse in detention centres and of setting up an inquiry which would prove a "whitewash".

SMH: Claims of racism as candidate forced out - The Liberal Party has chosen a former Queensland party president, Mr Bob Tucker, as candidate for the Ryan by-election to replace the former defence minister, Mr John Moore.

SMH: Cleared? Hockey was never investigated - Investigations never began into allegations of ministerial cronyism by a prominent Federal Government minister and could not therefore have exonerated him, a parliamentary inquiry was told yesterday.

SMH: Close the Woomera hell hole: Fraser - The Woomera migrant detention centre was a "hell hole" and should be closed immediately, former prime minister Mr Malcolm Fraser declared yesterday as he received an award to mark International Human Rights Day.

SMH: Commonsense escapes our PM, yet again - The National Crime Authority's suggestion that we should consider a heroin trial was grounded in such a bedrock of logic and commonsense that, naturally, all the usual people were clambering over each other to howl it down.

SMH: Compassion and the fair-go principle lost at sea - From the beginning, the Federal Government treated it as an act of war by the boat people. Now, we're at war with Norway. From the beginning, the government acted with the overwhelming support of the Australian people.

SMH: Coonan the conqueror - Senator Helen Coonan yesterday took the number one spot on the Liberal Party's Senate ticket for the Federal election, automatically pushing her friend and rival, Senator Marise Payne, into the unwinnable third Coalition position behind the National Party's top candidate.

SMH: Costello and Nat MP in Christmas party stoush - The Treasurer confronted a National Party member at the Prime Minister's Lodge Christmas party last night following the MP's public attack on the Government's crackdown on trusts.

SMH: Costello knew of Libs' GST scam - The Treasurer, Mr Costello, last night admitted knowing about a Liberal Party scam in which it improperly claimed rebates for GST payments it had not made.

SMH: Costello quiet on leadership question, but happy to proclaim he's a Burkean Liberal - Peter Costello has pronounced himself a bigger-population, low-tax politician who is a "Burkean" Liberal.

SMH: Costello to walk for reconciliation - The Treasurer, Mr Costello, has decided to join Melbourne's Walk for Reconciliation on Sunday.

SMH: Costello, PM - In this extract from his provocative new book, Shaun Carney explores what life would be like under Peter Costello.

SMH: Court promises change as party trails in polls - Dogged by voter anger at what they see as incompetence and unaccountability of some of his ministers, the West Australian Premier, Mr Court, has promised a clean-out of his Cabinet if re-elected on February 10.

SMH: Court thwarts deputy and anoints backbencher - West Australian Liberal leader Richard Court yesterday unveiled a plot to shaft his long-term deputy in favour of a woman who is not even a member of State Parliament.

SMH: Cowardice all round over a child called "it" - Alas! Poor Ruddock. Never a fellow of infinite jest at the best of times, the Immigration Minister seems now to have shrunk to a grey, bloodless husk, a talking skull, incapable of even the smallest flicker of emotion as more of the horrors of his gulag archipelago are revealed.

SMH: Cracker accounts for pollies are hard ads in hard times - A political ad campaign this Federal election is not exactly plain sailing but it's easier than raising the Titanic, says Peter FitzSimons.

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