The problem of the “political cycle”
Sunday, 8 April 2012 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 30 comments
Politics is becoming more cyclical, but only because the nature of politics is changing from what it was in the 20th century.
What a hollowing out looks like
Monday, 28 November 2011 International relations, State of the parties 10 comments
If the EU-appointed technocrat governments have no legitimacy, neither do the Parliaments that voted them in.
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.
Ideology and lunatics
Wednesday, 27 July 2011 Media analysis 43 comments
Whatever madmen do, no matter how horrific, has no political meaning. End of story.
Gillard: prisoner of the two-party system
Monday, 31 January 2011 Political figures, State of the parties 19 comments
Australian politics in 2011 centres around one question: can Gillard shrug off the backers that put her into power?
Book review: Barrie Cassidy’s The Party Thieves
Friday, 31 December 2010 Media analysis 29 comments
Here is someone working for the ABC, from a Labor background as press secretary for Bob Hawke, who has written about the rise and fall of a Labor Prime Minister with all the distortions and omissions worthy of the most disingenuous right wing hack.
When did John Howard become boring?
Tuesday, 26 October 2010 Political figures 8 comments
Karl Bitar says that Howard’s agenda has little relevance to the electorate today. He should know.
Stability
Monday, 26 July 2010 Key posts, State of the parties 12 comments
Standing for nothing is bad enough, but if you are so unstable that you can’t even keep to your head of government under the slightest pressure, then that is something else.
The dead hand of the party rises
Friday, 25 June 2010 Key posts, State of the parties 33 comments
Sooner or later this bankruptcy must work its way through again.
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.
