THE competition watchdog has enraged Telstra's competitors by freezing the prices they pay the telecommunications company for access to millions of home phone lines.
MALCOLM Turnbull last night was defiantly clinging to his collapsing leadership as he fought to deliver the emissions trading legislation in the wake of a mass exodus of senior figures from his front bench.
JOHN Howard has left Canberra, but being John Howard, he has not quit the political action — even as the riven and restive colleagues he left behind cannot seem to come to terms with his legacy, or decide who and what to be in his absence.