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?
Stability
Monday, 26 July 2010 Key posts, State of the parties 12 comments
Standing for nothing is bad enough, but if you are so unstable that you can’t even keep to your head of government under the slightest pressure, then that is something else.
The making of Ming the Merciless
Wednesday, 30 June 2010 Key posts, Political figures, State of the parties 22 comments
While the faction brokers may have got rid of their number one enemy, things are not back as they were.
The dead hand of the party rises
Friday, 25 June 2010 Key posts, State of the parties 33 comments
Sooner or later this bankruptcy must work its way through again.
The curse of anti-politics returns
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 Key posts, State of the parties 7 comments
What we are seeing here is the second stage of the problem of undermining of the Australian political class, that began with the exhaustion of the domestic program twenty years ago, and has now extended to the international sphere.
Best of Australian politics 2009
Tuesday, 29 December 2009 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 21 comments
That’s it for 2009.
Rats get a kicking too
Tuesday, 7 July 2009 Key posts, Media analysis 13 comments
Politicians avoid Rove not because it’s ‘easy’ and they yearn the tough questions of a Kerry O’Brien but because it is anti-political.
