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.
Walking straight into it
Friday, 2 September 2011 The Australian state 8 comments
Commentators are dismayed at Gillard’s ‘outrageous’ attacks on the High Court, but what is really striking is how mild it is.
The dead hand of the party rises – an update
Friday, 1 July 2011 Key posts, Political figures, State of the parties 6 comments
This upside-down thinking of social reality is symptomatic of a political party in decline.
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.
