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.
Gillard: media darling (sort of)
Thursday, 13 May 2010 Political figures 17 comments
The media have been talking about Gillard taking over the leadership as though it would sort out Labor’s electoral problems. Of course, there has not been a single poll that backs that view.
No revival, just decay – Federal edition
Wednesday, 5 May 2010 State of the parties 10 comments
Surely this isn’t the same Chris Uhlmann who a year ago was chastising Rudd for believing in the threat of climate change like it was an act of faith?
Scorched earth policy
Thursday, 29 April 2010 Tactics 6 comments
If the government is struggling to find something to stand for, then anti-politics might be the best tactic.
Unravelling Tony Abbott
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 Political figures 8 comments
Like One Nation, Abbott’s accession to the leadership is being confused with another phenomenon – the revival of the right.
The curse of anti-politics returns
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 Key posts, State of the parties 7 comments
What we are seeing here is the second stage of the problem of undermining of the Australian political class, that began with the exhaustion of the domestic program twenty years ago, and has now extended to the international sphere.
Is Turnbull a politician? – an update
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 Political figures 4 comments
It is the potential detachment of Abbott’s Liberals from big business interests that allows Turnbull a possible way back in.
How the ETS became the GST
Monday, 8 February 2010 Tactics 11 comments
Nearly two months after Copenhagen, the government has still not addressed it.
Destroying Abbott
Wednesday, 3 February 2010 Tactics 15 comments
Now we know what Turnbull was talking about.
No going back
Tuesday, 19 January 2010 State of the parties 14 comments
It will be a confusing year as the media mixes up the decay of the old for its revival, as it waits for the old comfortable parameters of the past to return.
