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.
No solution without revolution – an update
Friday, 22 March 2013 Tactics 24 comments
Crean was trying to find a compromise between a party power structure that has lost its relevance and a challenger whose popularity rests on not being part of it. It failed because things have gone past the point where a compromise is possible.
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.
Through the looking-glass
Monday, 4 February 2013 Tactics 8 comments
To anyone to look at the events in Canberra last week, barely any of it would have made a lick of sense.
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.
An (almost) classic Labor power play
Wednesday, 7 March 2012 Media analysis, Tactics 8 comments
It wasn’t a masterstroke, it was just the way the ALP works.
There is no third candidate
Monday, 27 February 2012 Political figures, State of the parties, Tactics 14 comments
Whether they like it or not Rudd is the only one in Labor with enough popular support to be a battering ram against those holding power and who are the ultimate target of reform.
Lifting the veil of a hung Parliament
Thursday, 24 November 2011 Tactics 10 comments
Rather than holding the government back, the hung Parliament has forced it to adopt the reforming agenda of the independents that at the last election, it made clear it didn’t intend to have.
Burying the Workchoices bogeyman
Tuesday, 1 November 2011 Tactics 5 comments
While Fair Work Australia had allowed for the weak state of the union movement, it did not allow for what would happen when an employer would take advantage of a weak government.
It’s about authority, not the policies
Sunday, 16 October 2011 Tactics 18 comments
The government mistake in still thinking it’s all about policy on asylum seekers, rather than its own authority, is why it cocked up so badly on Thursday.
