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.
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.
Walking straight into it
Friday, 2 September 2011 The Australian state 8 comments
Commentators are dismayed at Gillard’s ‘outrageous’ attacks on the High Court, but what is really striking is how mild it is.
Where the problem lies
Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Media analysis 15 comments
Tanner and Megalogenis may take pot shots across the media-political divide but ultimately it comes down to voters as the problem.
Book review: Paul Howes’s Confessions of a Faceless Man
Monday, 21 February 2011 Political figures, State of the parties, Tactics 21 comments
Can Australian politics be that insubstantial?
The Liberals start to normalise
Thursday, 17 February 2011 State of the parties 7 comments
Poor Julie Bishop. Always the proxy, never the bride.
Nothing to say
Thursday, 16 December 2010 Tactics 7 comments
That neither of the major parties have anything to say is implicit in Gillard’s call for a bipartisan committee to look into the issue.
The last thing they need are ideas – ALP edition
Wednesday, 10 November 2010 State of the parties 18 comments
If Rudd was so powerful, how could he have been summarily dismissed within barely a blink of an eye?
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.
Asylum seekers: a panic of the political class
Thursday, 15 July 2010 Tactics 3 comments
Rudd touched a raw nerve of how Labor, especially in NSW, understands its decline.
