The Year of the Walking Dead
Thursday, 23 December 2010 Key posts, State of the parties 6 comments
What caught this blogger out was that the Labor factions still had some life in them. But now that they are back in charge, it is reassuring to see that they do not after all.
Labor’s technocrat moment has passed
Monday, 29 November 2010 State and federal politics 21 comments
‘Revival’ is too strong a word, but the Victorian Liberals did achieve at least a partial solution to a very important problem.
The climate change moment has passed
Friday, 19 November 2010 State of the parties 14 comments
No doubt there are still those idealistic youth willing to jump to action fired up by the commitment to, er, save the Australian economy from the devastating consequences of climate change.
The reform pantomime
Thursday, 4 November 2010 State of the parties 21 comments
There was a time when reform didn’t used to be such a fashionable word.
Stay at home – an update
Tuesday, 12 October 2010 International relations 7 comments
Clarity on military conflict is not an option for a Coalition leader.
Stay at home
Thursday, 7 October 2010 International relations 13 comments
The press are not really making much of this, but Abbott’s gaffe over Afghanistan is probably a major blow to his leadership inside the party.
Independents feed off the weak – an update
Tuesday, 5 October 2010 Tactics 15 comments
If it was really about stability they could have forced another election where the odds would have been that the finely split balance of the current Parliament would not have been repeated.
Softball
Tuesday, 28 September 2010 State of the parties 13 comments
There is an intriguing little experiment underway at the moment in Australian politics, far more interesting than the quagmire currently dressed up as a new paradigm.
The old order debases itself
Thursday, 26 August 2010 State of the parties 16 comments
The consequences of Labor losing government for Gillard, and the power brokers who put there, are unthinkable and Labor will be desperate to cling to power and is likely to be blind to the dangers it will bring.
Illegitimate
Monday, 23 August 2010 State of the parties, The Australian state 13 comments
It is likely that whichever party forms government with the independents, they will use those independents as a cover for not being able to implement a program that they never had in the first place.
