All together for Albo!
I’ve always wondered if the claim, often made by rightwingers in the ALP, that whoever is their standard bearer is just *more electable* has just become one of those supposedly self-evident nostrums that people repeat without even thinking about it. […]
Anthony Albanese for Labor Leader
I watched the first of three televised “debates” between Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten the other night. They will meet again in Melbourne tomorrow night and appear together on Q&A on Monday night. One of the interesting things about this […]
Mr Abbott and the Culture Wars II: Climate Change and civil society
One argument I made in my earlier post about Mr Abbott’s relaunch of the Culture Wars is that he won’t have noticed that civil society is stronger than it was in the Howard years. It’s not just “clicktivism” – there […]
Not the Shipping News: There was no landslide
Now that the election counting for the House of Representatives is done and dusted (with Clive Palmer’s 36 vote victory in Fairfax being the last outstanding datum of import; though see the interesting Senate races still undeclared), there’s been a […]
Who passed the Lindsay Test? On Murdoch’s declining empire
I probably don’t need to link to any of the multifarious commentators who found the blatant partisanship of the Murdoch tabloids in the campaign offensive and anti-democratic. Generally, I’m eschewing purchasing News Limited titles, but I did take a look […]
Guest post by Miriam Lyons: Pushing Our Luck? I
MB writes: I’ve asked a number of the contributors to our discussion at Avid Reader around the CPD’s Pushing Our Luck to write up some of the themes and thoughts from the night. Second cab off the rank is Miriam Lyons. I’ve extracted the first section […]
The Cathy McGowan Indi model
Sophie Mirabella has conceded defeat to Cathy McGowan in the Victorian seat of Indi. At last night’s Centre for Policy Development book launch at Avid Reader in Brisbane (see here), Miriam Lyons remarked that other rural and regional communities, and […]
Electoral systems and gender equity redux
Today’s Age reports that, according to research by the Inter-Parliamentary Union: Women’s representation in parliaments is most likely to increase where there is some sort of system of quotas, an analysis of international elections held last year shows. Whatever the […]
Beyond Kevin, beyond Julia, beyond Kevin
It was the morning of Saturday, 24th November 2007, in London. A powerful sense of impending euphoria had made it difficult to sleep. There was no plastic Christmas tree in the corner of the room, and no presents to rip […]
Factional Labourism: An Infantile Disorder
I don’t know about others, but a lot of Labor folk I know felt surprisingly good on Saturday night, and for a little while after the election dust had settled. It was refreshing to see Labor members finally appearing to […]
Momentum building for a contested Labor leadership election
Anthony Albanese hasn’t yet revealed his hand publicly, but the Fin Review reported this morning that the outgoing Deputy Prime Minister had told leadership aspirant Bill Shorten he planned to run. This is undoubtedly the context for the extraordinary spray […]
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