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.
Illegitimate – Budget edition
Saturday, 14 May 2011 State of the parties 9 comments
Unlike Labor’s previous bouts of economic rationalism, say, as under Hawke and Keating, this time business aren’t especially asking for it.
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?
The reform pantomime
Thursday, 4 November 2010 State of the parties 21 comments
There was a time when reform didn’t used to be such a fashionable word.
Only the end of the beginning
Monday, 28 September 2009 International relations 6 comments
Before a sunrise, there has to be a sunset.
Rudd’s Road to Austerity
Tuesday, 28 July 2009 State of the parties 7 comments
These decades of stagnant real wages is the background that is usually forgotten by billionaires like George Soros and Bill Gross when they get worked up about the rise of credit.
New myths for old
Friday, 24 July 2009 Media analysis 3 comments
It might be that it doesn’t matter and we are not in a lull between the global banking crisis becoming a global fiscal crisis and that indeed the worst is now over and growth will resume. If so, why are some of our brightest talking austerity?
The true meaning of spin
Thursday, 4 June 2009 State of the parties 2 comments
Labor put a positive gloss on the numbers yesterday, but ironically so did the coalition.
The re-election campaign begins
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 Tactics 3 comments
If Labor can look credible enough on climate change, whatever the next election will be fought on, that should be enough to win it.
The state steps in
Monday, 25 May 2009 The Australian state 5 comments
Treasury’s unusual move in projecting growth at a higher trend and for a longer forward projection is necessary to provide a guide path out of the downturn that does not come from the economic programs of the political class.
