Crumbling from within
Saturday, 4 February 2012 State of the parties 8 comments
What is giving this leadership contest a different flavour to those of the past, is that it is less a case of factions switching allegiance, but being unable to summon up the allegiance against someone who is intent on over-riding them.
What a farce looks like
Saturday, 28 January 2012 The Australian state 13 comments
All we needed was a Canberra farce and we have all we need to know.
Paving the way for Rudd
Thursday, 22 December 2011 State of the parties 10 comments
Gillard is left with neither a factional system that could deliver an acceptable result, or the authority to over-ride them.
Self-absorbed and deluded – Conference special
Thursday, 1 December 2011 State of the parties 6 comments
If there is something a touch phoney about the same sex marriage debate, it looks positively genuine compared to the one on uranium.
Lifting the veil of a hung Parliament
Thursday, 24 November 2011 Tactics 10 comments
Rather than holding the government back, the hung Parliament has forced it to adopt the reforming agenda of the independents that at the last election, it made clear it didn’t intend to have.
Going down together
Friday, 18 November 2011 International relations 4 comments
The irony of all of this is that there is pretty well no two countries with less interest in breaking off with each other than the US and China.
Book review: Lindsay Tanner’s Sideshow
Friday, 28 October 2011 Media analysis 7 comments
Far from wishing to undermine it, the Australian media is joined at the hip to the current political system and is getting caught up in its problems.
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.
Rudd, the anti-politics campaigner – Reprise?
Thursday, 29 September 2011 Political figures 7 comments
This is a struggle over the dead soul of the Labor party.
Too late for the NSW disease
Wednesday, 7 September 2011 State of the parties 27 comments
This was the real NSW disease, not changing leaders, but it no longer having any electoral rationale.
