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.
Degeneration
Wednesday, 10 October 2012 Political figures 21 comments
It is wonderful to see such bipartisanship at work in our Parliament behind the personal attacks.
Top end upended
Monday, 27 August 2012 State and federal politics 43 comments
Far from being “out of it” some politicians have been working hard to make the remote communities in the Northern Territory and Queensland practically avant-garde.
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.
After July
Monday, 25 June 2012 State of the parties 6 comments
It has been forgotten now, but the opposition to the ETS was not an electoral ploy but a desperate attempt to save the Coalition’s brand.
Class war dreaming
Thursday, 24 May 2012 State of the parties 33 comments
The delusion of both sides of the political spectrum suggests we are building up to a full-blown political crisis yet to come.
What a farce looks like
Saturday, 28 January 2012 The Australian state 13 comments
All we needed was a Canberra farce and we have all we need to know.
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.
