Self-absorbed and deluded – an update
Friday, 6 August 2010 Tactics 35 comments
At least referring back to Howard gives Abbott an appearance of stability that he otherwise doesn’t have. The return of Rudd has exactly the opposite effect for Labor.
How Labor made Abbott electable
Saturday, 31 July 2010 Key posts, Political figures, Tactics 50 comments
How did this man become electable?
Ad Watch – It’s the same Labor; Let’s move Australia forward together
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 Tactics 15 comments
Labor’s ad may look positive, but it is actually an attack ad – against a Labor government
Asylum seekers: a panic of the political class
Thursday, 15 July 2010 Tactics 3 comments
Rudd touched a raw nerve of how Labor, especially in NSW, understands its decline.
An election to fill the gap
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 Tactics 9 comments
Gillard’s main agenda is to provide real backflips rather than the wishy-washy backflips of Rudd’s.
Let’s all forget 2007 – ALP edition
Wednesday, 7 July 2010 Tactics, The Australian state 28 comments
Gillard claims to want to move away from political correctness on asylum seekers, but in fact her entire approach to the issue shares the assumption of the politically correct left; namely that concerns about it are such a powerful inflammatory force in the electorate that it must be indulged and made a big deal of.
How a conviction politician was reborn
Wednesday, 16 June 2010 Media analysis, Tactics 15 comments
The media are uncomfortable with the vacuum at the centre of Australian politics.
Rudd: an anti-politics campaigner no more?
Monday, 7 June 2010 Tactics 16 comments
Rudd wants a fight with the political class, not the miners.
Abbott’s not a risk to anyone but the Liberals
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 Tactics 8 comments
It’s perhaps understandable that when Labor might be wondering what abandoning all their principles under Rudd is actually getting them, that the temptation to buff themselves up by attacking Abbott as too right wing, rather than, say, too incoherent, should be too powerful to pass up.
Scorched earth policy
Thursday, 29 April 2010 Tactics 6 comments
If the government is struggling to find something to stand for, then anti-politics might be the best tactic.
