Review: Mark Latham’s Not Dead Yet
Monday, 29 April 2013 Key posts, State of the parties 17 comments
For all his faux blokeishness and Western Sydney credentials, Latham had no more ability to relate to the electorate than any insider Labor hack.
The phoney problem of policy
Monday, 4 March 2013 Key posts, State of the parties, Tactics 15 comments
What is more important is that Gillard and Labor, detached as they (like the Coalition) are, can be seen to relate to someone in society.
The phoney problem of ideology
Monday, 25 February 2013 Key posts, State of the parties 19 comments
It is the loss of that social base that Labor is struggling to adapt to, not some problem of ideology.
The problem of the “political cycle”
Sunday, 8 April 2012 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 30 comments
Politics is becoming more cyclical, but only because the nature of politics is changing from what it was in the 20th century.
It’s a political crisis, not a problem of media ethics
Monday, 19 March 2012 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 12 comments
Some journalists might at least make at least some effort to keep the hypocrisy under check.
Caught in a racial trap
Thursday, 26 January 2012 Key posts, The Australian state 68 comments
How do you change racial provisions in the Constitution when the entire infrastructure of land rights is based on it?
What a political crisis looks like – 2011 edition
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 Key posts, State of the parties 9 comments
This Parliament has an in-built disconnect with the electorate that is no more likely to be resolved at the next election as it was at the last.
The dead hand of the party rises – an update
Friday, 1 July 2011 Key posts, Political figures, State of the parties 6 comments
This upside-down thinking of social reality is symptomatic of a political party in decline.
The Year of the Walking Dead
Thursday, 23 December 2010 Key posts, State of the parties 6 comments
What caught this blogger out was that the Labor factions still had some life in them. But now that they are back in charge, it is reassuring to see that they do not after all.
How Labor made Abbott electable
Saturday, 31 July 2010 Key posts, Political figures, Tactics 50 comments
How did this man become electable?
