Time to leave Howard in the swamp
Tuesday, 21 August 2007 Tactics Comments Off
Rudd’s job now is to stop boring the nation on how drunk he was four years ago.
Grind-down
Monday, 13 August 2007 Tactics Comments Off
As the year progresses and commentators start to accept the government is losing, they seem increasingly to want to make it a non-event.
Remaking the ALP – an update
Monday, 30 July 2007 State of the parties Comments Off
The ALP National Conference in May showed that Rudd was in the process of transforming the ALP. Moaning over Rudd’s ‘me-tooism’ shows that the media and the government are starting to get what this means.
Why the wedge is not working
Sunday, 29 July 2007 Tactics Leave a comment
Labor’s supposed vulnerability on being wedged presumes that it can be too well intentioned for its own good sometimes and that Howard can cause trouble by appealing to the electorate’s darker nature.
Politics is not just polls
Wednesday, 11 July 2007 Tactics Comments Off
The NT intervention has altered the dynamic of this campaign.
Left swinging in the breeze
Tuesday, 10 July 2007 International relations Comments Off
The Iraqi foreign minister was reported to have warned that his government’s authority could be undermined if the growing Republican revolt over Bush’s Iraq policy translated to the withdrawal of US troops. Our foreign affairs minister must know how he feels. The timing of this revolt so close to the recent kerfuffle over Brendan Nelson’s [...]
Hiatus
Tuesday, 10 July 2007 State of the parties Comments Off
Attempts to bring in other reasons like oil for staying in Iraq is tempting because of the decreasing political effectiveness of the War on Terror.
All about oil? They wish
Friday, 6 July 2007 International relations Comments Off
It used to be a comfort to the left to believe the Iraq invasion was all about oil. There now appears to be some in the government who think it will be of comfort to them.
Empty vessels with nothing to fill them
Thursday, 5 July 2007 The Australian state Leave a comment
There is something slightly distasteful about the way that those against the war continually use these acts to try and win an argument that they could not win at the time it mattered, when the troops actually went in.
Looks more like Iraq than Tampa
Saturday, 23 June 2007 Key posts, The Australian state Comments Off
One of the assumptions of the current debate is that the NT report that kicked this off had conclusive evidence of widespread child abuse. It did not.
