Trying to do a Latham
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 Tactics 5 comments
Latham and Rudd may have not needed to consult their party, Abbott didn’t dare consult his.
The curse of anti-politics returns
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 State of the parties 7 comments
What we are seeing here is the second stage of the problem of undermining of the Australian political class, that began with the exhaustion of the domestic program twenty years ago, and has now extended to the international sphere.
Is Turnbull a politician? – an update
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 Political figures 4 comments
It is the potential detachment of Abbott’s Liberals from big business interests that allows Turnbull a possible way back in.
Destroying Abbott
Wednesday, 3 February 2010 Tactics 15 comments
Now we know what Turnbull was talking about.
Best of Australian politics 2009
Tuesday, 29 December 2009 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 21 comments
That’s it for 2009.
Self absorbed, and deluded
Monday, 14 December 2009 Political figures, Tactics 10 comments
This is all about making the Liberals feel good, not the government feel bad.
The not-so-glorious sunset of the old order
Monday, 7 December 2009 State of the parties 9 comments
In losing his leadership, Turnbull has achieved what he couldn’t while he had it, the removal of open climate change scepticism from the Coalition.
Once more, with feeling
Wednesday, 2 December 2009 Political figures, Tactics 20 comments
Abbott is clinging to a past political tradition that died in 2007.
Damaged
Monday, 30 November 2009 Political figures 8 comments
As Gillard showed with her mocking of him yesterday, Hockey would provide the easiest target for the government yet.
Conservatives scramble for cover
Sunday, 29 November 2009 Tactics 7 comments
The problem for Abbott and the conservatives now is that having broken away, their electoral unacceptability is now being openly discussed.
