Flashpoint No. 2

Friday, 10 July 2009   International relations   8 comments 

The detention by the Chinese government of an Australian businessman poses far more difficulties for Rudd than would be immediately apparent in the polls.

No Right turn

Monday, 19 January 2009   State of the parties   8 comments 

For someone who makes a living out of being right wing it is not surprising that Switzer doesn’t want to acknowledge what really happened to right wing politics last November.

The slow toppling of Turnbull

Monday, 12 January 2009   Political figures   5 comments 

We now have a couple of straws in the wind that suggest the Liberals have embarked on the slow and tortuous task of undermining and destroying Turnbull’s leadership.

What damage a dying government did

Wednesday, 10 December 2008   The Australian state  Comments Off 

If apologies are so in vogue, maybe here’s a chance to apologise to all those living now who have had such a slur made against them …

An irrelevant and useful distraction – an update

Monday, 8 December 2008   State of the parties  Comments Off 

What is striking in the press coverage is how it has shifted focus onto what the Nationals did and away from the real challenge to Turnbull’s authority, what the Liberal front bench did.

Libs light a candle for Keating

Friday, 1 February 2008   State of the parties  Comments Off 

If there is anywhere where the Keating agenda is more alive it is in those blue ribbon Liberal seats that backed the republic in 1999 and stood so solidly behind the party last November.

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