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.
Preparing for war
Sunday, 24 March 2013 State of the parties, Tactics 42 comments
You think it’s about Rudd v Gillard? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
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.
No solution without revolution
Monday, 18 February 2013 Political figures, State of the parties 42 comments
It will be the breakdown of the factional system that will be the necessary precondition for the return of Rudd, but not sufficient.
Lame duck
Thursday, 31 January 2013 State of the parties, Tactics 18 comments
In Australia, a Prime Minister facing even the most inevitable of defeats still holds to the end one power of incumbency – deciding when it will happen. Now even that has been thrown away.
Compulsion
Monday, 21 January 2013 State of the parties 12 comments
Wait till you see what is coming to Canberra this year.
Last dance
Monday, 14 January 2013 State of the parties 14 comments
The old will have to give way in 2013.
Howard’s Golden Age
Monday, 20 August 2012 State of the parties 16 comments
The over-turning of the orthodoxies of the Howard period during 2008-2009 has been forgotten as much as the reason for the popularity for the man who brought them about.
The day the Gillard government died
Monday, 9 July 2012 State of the parties 17 comments
Making an enemy of a party on which your supporters agree on practically every issue is at best an empty gesture and at worst will make the Greens the anti-establishment party they clearly crave but don’t deserve.
