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.
A staged implosion – Round 2
Thursday, 8 October 2009 State of the parties 6 comments
Now when Turnbull, the only one in the Liberal Party who seems to have actually wanted to lead it over the last few years, is gone, the vacuum is likely to come back with a vengeance.
What a political crisis looks like – Climate change edition
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 State of the parties 6 comments
Climate change has become the issue that is carrying the Coalition parties downstream not just away from the electorate, but even from their own base.
Rights and wrongs
Tuesday, 1 September 2009 The Australian state 10 comments
While the right and left have argued over the nature of the punishment, what we have seen with the intervention is a denial of a basic right in front of the law to be judged whether to receive the punishment in the first place.
Nelson’s lesson for Turnbull
Thursday, 27 August 2009 Political figures 7 comments
Nelson’s problem was not so much Rudd, but that his party would not let him follow the route Rudd has taken to adapt to current conditions.
