Ad Watch – Economy central to everything/Labor’s response
Wednesday, 17 October 2007 Tactics Comments Off
Yet while posing as a positive ad against the Liberals’ negativity, it is Rudd’s anti-politics attack on the Liberals’ campaigning which stands out the most.
Leadership watch – Howard on The 7.30 Report
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Tactics Comments Off
The new feisty John Howard on The 7.30 Report last night, compared to the steadier Rudd, highlights that Howard is the one to watch in this campaign not Rudd.
Tax cuts for the Liberals
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Tactics Comments Off
At this early stage of the campaign it is more important to cohere the party and maintain morale than win votes.
The pretend campaign, and the real one
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 Tactics Comments Off
The Liberals are less campaigning for government than their political survival.
Saying sorry to make them feel good
Saturday, 13 October 2007 The Australian state Comments Off
What value does an apology for taking children away from their parents in 1957 have from a political class that supported an initiative in 2007 based on exactly the same assumption – namely that indigenous parents are incapable of looking after their kids?
Oh goody, a racial constitution
Friday, 12 October 2007 The Australian state Comments Off
How racially pure does an indigenous person need to be eligible for recognition under Howard’s new constitutional amendment?
Hand it to them on a plate …
Thursday, 11 October 2007 Tactics Comments Off
The danger with McClelland’s speech was that it momentarily revealed Labor’s core weakness. Labor is a party that has lost its historic role and its basis for representing the interests of a significant section of the electorate. Adrift from a real social base, its policies had reflected more the moral positions of a group of individuals like the Australian Democrats than that of a party of government. That was the truth that was glimpsed last election with Latham’s forestry stance and came back again on Monday night.
Me-tooism, but not you
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 Media analysis Leave a comment
Tactically, Rob McClelland’s proposal to oppose the death penalty for the Bali bombers would have to be the worst thing to have come from Labor’s campaign all year. It was so off-message that reports Rudd did not know the content of the speech could be credible.
The Greens’ last fling
Tuesday, 9 October 2007 State and federal politics Comments Off
Like most environmental issues for the last twenty years, this is really about the major parties.
The controversy over the report on the impact of Workchoices released by the University of Sydney’s Workplace Research Centre is strange because there was a much more damning report on the government’s IR reforms by the same group a few weeks earlier that was virtually ignored by both parties.
