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.
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.
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.
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.
Last dance
Monday, 14 January 2013 State of the parties 14 comments
The old will have to give way in 2013.
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.
