• Recent Posts

  • Health may not be the winner
  • Unravelling Tony Abbott
  • Opposing on empty
  • Trying to do a Latham
  • Rudd: the anti-politics campaigner – 2010 edition

• Recent Comments

  • David Pethick on Opposing on empty
  • Graeme on Health may not be the winner
  • Ricc on Unravelling Tony Abbott
  • John Kotsopoulos on Unravelling Tony Abbott
  • The Piping Shrike on Unravelling Tony Abbott
  • john Willoughby on Unravelling Tony Abbott
  • Riccardo on Opposing on empty
  • Edirol on Unravelling Tony Abbott
  • Rocket on Unravelling Tony Abbott
  • James on Unravelling Tony Abbott
• Search for:

• Categories

  • International relations (33)
  • Key posts (41)
  • Media analysis (51)
  • Political figures (67)
  • State and federal politics (29)
  • State of the parties (100)
  • Tactics (155)
  • The Australian state (26)

• Tags

  2004 Election 2007 Election 2020 Summit Abbott Advertising ALP Anti-politics Asylum seekers Budget Climate change Costello Economy Environment Federation Garrett Gillard Greens Haneef Hockey Howard Immigration Industrial relations Iraq war Joyce Keating Latham Legal Liberals Media National Party Nelson NSW NT NT intervention Polls Queensland Race Rudd Senate Swan Turnbull US alliance Utegate WA War on Terror

• Archives

  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007

Rudd and Gillard are campaigning against an arm of government. However, it is worth noting that they are also campaigning against the parties running them, including their own.

Even before the 2007 election, Rudd was using health as a basis for his anti-political agenda.

There is just a little bit of hypocrisy doing the rounds about Evan Thornley’s sudden decision to refuse a ministry spot and quit Victorian politics.

It was the political assault on the old power bases of the party that was the underlying theme of federal Labor in 2008.

… it seems the more the Liberals ditch what they stand for, the more they cling to Howard the man, rather than what he was supposed to stand for.

So much for the election of a Liberal Premier shaking up Rudd’s federalism.

Labor can push emission cuts out to well beyond the political life of anyone in the government. Unfortunately the Murray crisis creates expectations over what it can do and highlights its impotence now.

The Nationals’ problem is not some demographic phenomenon of sun-seekers retiring on the NSW coast but a political one. They are the most obvious victims of an unravelling of the old two party system that is affecting all of the parties.

What seems to be one enduring legacy of the Howard era has been the decline in political commentary in this country.

Analysis of Iemma’s position suffers too much from seeing him as a victim of fate, rather than also, partly, a maker of it.

Earlier posts →

• 

• Key Posts of the Summer

  There was an eerie synchronicity in Sydney and Canberra last week as the two most influential political organisations of the latter half of the 20th century, the ALP NSW Right and the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party, went through remarkably similar motions.

  - The not-so-glorious sunset of the old order

  This is all about making the Liberals feel good, not the government feel bad.

  - Self absorbed, and deluded

  For the last decade, the Australian right has been living a lie.

  - No choice

  Rudd had been looking for overseas governments to provide a direction that it has avoided sticking its neck out trying to generate at home.

  - No more Copenhagen to hide behind

  The charge has drifted from sexual abuse to a vague one of neglect, because there was no evidence, neither from the initial report that sparked the intervention, nor from the subsequent thousands of medical checks that followed. So there was no trial; just the punishment and an unproven slur against NT indigenous communities.

  - Rights and wrongs

• Calendar

  March 2010

  M	T	W	T	F	S	S
  « Feb
  1	2	3	4	5	6	7
  8	9	10	11	12	13	14
  15	16	17	18	19	20	21
  22	23	24	25	26	27	28
  29	30	31

• Recommended links

  • Blogotariat
  • Mumble
  • The Political Sword
  • The Poll Bludger

• Contact

  thepipingshrike@gmail.com

• Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org
•  Subscribe to The Piping Shrike

  Add to Technorati Favorites