Bluff and counter-bluff
Sunday, 17 May 2009 Tactics 5 comments
Both parties were just talking tough about going to the electorate with economic programmes that they didn’t have.
What a crisis looks like – an update
Thursday, 14 May 2009 State of the parties 5 comments
So if the downturn is unprecedented, why has then Treasury chosen this time to change its methodology to more allow for the experience of past economic recoveries than ever before?
The coming non-event – 2009 edition
Monday, 11 May 2009 Tactics 7 comments
Predictions of some officials in Washington, London and Paris that the economy would begin to recover within a year, are based on no other reason than they wouldn’t know what to do if it didn’t.
No left turn, either
Tuesday, 14 April 2009 State of the parties 6 comments
Clearly some markets are more evil than others.
A political morality play
Friday, 10 April 2009 Key posts, Tactics 9 comments
To make a morality play out of this economic crisis it is first necessary to make it a financial one.
Good for pollies, if no-one else
Monday, 6 April 2009 International relations 6 comments
Chris Uhlmann must have clearly enjoyed London because even his anti-government cynicism was swept away by what came out of the G20. It is hard to see why.
The awkward special relationship
Thursday, 2 April 2009 International relations 6 comments
If it is clear that there has a failure to find an international solution, it is bad news for Rudd because he doesn’t really have anything on the domestic front by way of a counter-crisis strategy.
Too big to fail
Monday, 30 March 2009 International relations 2 comments
In effect the US government is putting an economic gun to the head of the other major economic powers and doing to the rest of the world what the major US financial institutions did to it.
Dead centre
Monday, 23 March 2009 State of the parties 9 comments
The fact is that, leaving aside metaphysical claptrap, any objective assessment would have concluded that this was an election that Labor should never have looked like losing.
What a crisis looks like
Monday, 9 March 2009 Key posts, State of the parties 4 comments
The period of domestic initiatives is now over and the global dimension to this crisis is now becoming unavoidable.
