Crumbling from within
Saturday, 4 February 2012 State of the parties 23 comments
What is giving this leadership contest a different flavour to those of the past, is that it is less a case of factions switching allegiance, but being unable to summon up the allegiance against someone who is intent on over-riding them.
Paving the way for Rudd
Thursday, 22 December 2011 State of the parties 10 comments
Gillard is left with neither a factional system that could deliver an acceptable result, or the authority to over-ride them.
Self-absorbed and deluded – Conference special
Thursday, 1 December 2011 State of the parties 6 comments
If there is something a touch phoney about the same sex marriage debate, it looks positively genuine compared to the one on uranium.
What a hollowing out looks like
Monday, 28 November 2011 International relations, State of the parties 9 comments
If the EU-appointed technocrat governments have no legitimacy, neither do the Parliaments that voted them in.
Going down together
Friday, 18 November 2011 International relations 4 comments
The irony of all of this is that there is pretty well no two countries with less interest in breaking off with each other than the US and China.
Book review: Lindsay Tanner’s Sideshow
Friday, 28 October 2011 Media analysis 7 comments
Far from wishing to undermine it, the Australian media is joined at the hip to the current political system and is getting caught up in its problems.
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.
Rudd, the anti-politics campaigner – Reprise?
Thursday, 29 September 2011 Political figures 7 comments
This is a struggle over the dead soul of the Labor party.
9/11 – the event that never happened
Monday, 12 September 2011 State of the parties 8 comments
9/11 and the War on Terror didn’t mark the start of Labor’s problems, it marked the temporary suspension, for about five or six years, of the Coalition’s.
Too late for the NSW disease
Wednesday, 7 September 2011 State of the parties 27 comments
This was the real NSW disease, not changing leaders, but it no longer having any electoral rationale.
