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 re-emerge to a changed landscape
Monday, 15 September 2008 State and federal politics Comments Off
The Nationals’ problem is not some demographic phenomenon of sun-seekers retiring on the NSW coast but a political one. They are the most obvious victims of an unravelling of the old two party system that is affecting all of the parties.
No revival, just decay – an update
Tuesday, 9 September 2008 Media analysis Comments Off
By proposing a deal with Labor in the first place Grylls and Carpenter have already changed the old bi-polar landscape.
No revival, just decay
Monday, 8 September 2008 State of the parties Comments Off
Those who think the election results across the country on Saturday showed the inevitable swinging back of the pendulum following the election of the Rudd government, must have been squinting at them with one eye.
Liberals head to Canberra for the party meetings this week with the salutary lesson from what has just happened in Queensland. The media likes to call it a merger but in fact it was a political collapse.
Bodies on the track
Wednesday, 9 July 2008 State and federal politics, State of the parties Comments Off
Didn’t the Liberal party just lose a branch recently?
An irrelevant and useful distraction
Wednesday, 26 March 2008 State of the parties Comments Off
Pushing a merger allows Nelson to turn the Liberals’ irrelevant ideological debate into an irrelevant organisational debate about whether to merge with a rump party in permanent decline.
The coming anti-politics coup
Monday, 19 November 2007 State of the parties Comments Off
When Rudd stood up in front of the Labor party and told them the spending must end, what he was saying was that the time when those in Labor could pursue their agenda through state spending is now over. In return, the party got the end of Workchoices. It is a lousy deal.
