Crumbling from within
Saturday, 4 February 2012 State of the parties 8 comments
What is giving this leadership contest a different flavour to those of the past, is that it is less a case of factions switching allegiance, but being unable to summon up the allegiance against someone who is intent on over-riding them.
Paving the way for Rudd
Thursday, 22 December 2011 State of the parties 10 comments
Gillard is left with neither a factional system that could deliver an acceptable result, or the authority to over-ride them.
Self-absorbed and deluded – Conference special
Thursday, 1 December 2011 State of the parties 6 comments
If there is something a touch phoney about the same sex marriage debate, it looks positively genuine compared to the one on uranium.
What a hollowing out looks like
Monday, 28 November 2011 International relations, State of the parties 9 comments
If the EU-appointed technocrat governments have no legitimacy, neither do the Parliaments that voted them in.
What IR debate?
Monday, 7 November 2011 State of the parties 22 comments
Others in the media, however, are starting to look beyong the phoney IR debate and pick up the embarrassment the reality is causing the Liberals.
9/11 – the event that never happened
Monday, 12 September 2011 State of the parties 8 comments
9/11 and the War on Terror didn’t mark the start of Labor’s problems, it marked the temporary suspension, for about five or six years, of the Coalition’s.
Too late for the NSW disease
Wednesday, 7 September 2011 State of the parties 27 comments
This was the real NSW disease, not changing leaders, but it no longer having any electoral rationale.
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.
A bogus debate about democracy
Monday, 13 June 2011 State of the parties 21 comments
The democratic element of the ALP is not how free and fair its internal rules are for the membership, but how much the party bosses reflect something real in society.
