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Sooner or later this bankruptcy must work its way through again.
- The dead hand of the party rises
Abbott's bravado and ‘values’ made little political sense in themselves, but fed into a Labor party becoming increasingly insecure with no real roots at home and a lack of support abroad.
- How Labor made Abbott electable
How do you change racial provisions in the Constitution when the entire infrastructure of land rights is based on it?
- Caught in a racial trap
Politics is becoming more cyclical, but only because the nature of politics is changing from what it was in the 20th century.
- The problem of the “political cycle”
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Latham is articulating a search for a new relationship of politics to society, based not on its representation, but on intervention on a degraded basis. You have been warned.
Not Dead Yet by Mark Latham
In reality under this complaint about the media lurks a political argument that is highly revealing about the mindset of the political class today.
Sideshow by Lindsay Tanner
Here is someone working for the ABC, from a Labor background as Hawke’s press secretary, who has written about the rise and fall of a Labor Prime Minister with all the distortions and omissions worthy of the most disingenuous right wing hack.
The Party Thieves by Barrie Cassidy
The most bizarre defence of the two party system comes over what for Megalogenis is the most personal – immigration.
Trivial Pursuit by George Megalogenis
Can Australian politics be that insubstantial?
Confessions of a Faceless Man by Paul Howes
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It’s a political crisis, not a problem of media ethics

Monday, 19 March 2012 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 12 comments

Some journalists might at least make at least some effort to keep the hypocrisy under check.

There is no third candidate

Monday, 27 February 2012 Political figures, State of the parties, Tactics 14 comments

Whether they like it or not Rudd is the only one in Labor with enough popular support to be a battering ram against those holding power and who are the ultimate target of reform.

There is no “People Power”

Saturday, 25 February 2012 State of the parties 14 comments

Rudd’s intention is not to ‘democratise’ Labor, but reorganise it to reflect the social irrelevance it has become.

Catalyst

Thursday, 23 February 2012 Political figures, State of the parties 35 comments

A change in Labor has the potential, therefore, to change the entire political scene.

The Piping Shrike guide to the coming leadership crisis

Monday, 20 February 2012 Political figures, State of the parties 28 comments

OK, this is going to get messy.

Crumbling from within

Saturday, 4 February 2012 State of the parties 23 comments

What is giving this leadership contest a different flavour to those of the past, is that it is less a case of factions switching allegiance, but being unable to summon up the allegiance against someone who is intent on over-riding them.