Unravelling Tony Abbott
Wednesday, 17 March 2010 Political figures 8 comments
Like One Nation, Abbott’s accession to the leadership is being confused with another phenomenon – the revival of the right.
Opposing on empty
Monday, 15 March 2010 Tactics 4 comments
If Howard couldn’t sustain a distinctive agenda in the run up to the 2007 election, why should Abbott after 2010?
No choice
Tuesday, 1 December 2009 State of the parties 16 comments
For the last decade, the Australian right has been living a lie.
Rogue poll, rogue media
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 Media analysis 6 comments
How cruel, and how naughty, of Newspoll to do a rogue poll!
The New Opposition – an update
Friday, 6 November 2009 Media analysis, Tactics 8 comments
There is one final striking thing about the Rudd media tour, he is the only one doing it because at the end of the day, he is the only in the government who knows how it is done.
Another Howard bubble finally bursts
Monday, 26 October 2009 Tactics 5 comments
Rudd was calling the bluff that Turnbull and the Liberals had been playing, namely that Howard had a real policy that they could return to rather than a political game whose time had passed.
A losing game for Labor
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 Tactics 5 comments
What’s worse, earning a trade out of human misery or making politics out of it?
A pathetic attempt to look in control
Thursday, 15 October 2009 Tactics 3 comments
Chris Uhlmann castigated Rudd for not using his political capital to take a less populist line on asylum seekers, but in reality there is no political capital.
Howard/Nelson/Turnbull is not the problem
Monday, 12 October 2009 State of the parties 4 comments
At no time has the party ever had its leadership calculations so openly determined by their complete loss of confidence in their ability to recover government in the foreseeable future.
Tony Abbott: too clever by half
Friday, 9 October 2009 Political figures 8 comments
The irony is that Abbott is doing what Turnbull did in reverse, but with the same negative consequences.
