Rudd’s more like Latham than Turnbull is

Monday, 29 June 2009   Political figures   4 comments 

Unlike Rudd, Turnbull does not lead a technocratic shell that is happy to leave its policies to its leader, but Australia’s last political party that is still desperately thrashing around on what it stands for.

Flashpoint – an update

Thursday, 25 June 2009   Tactics   2 comments 

What we have seen in the last week is how destructive to both parties the current climate can be on the most minor of issues and from practices that would have been quite acceptable in the past.

It’s the politics, stupid

Wednesday, 24 June 2009   Political figures   4 comments 

Turnbull, someone who has made a career out of his ability to nurture powerful contacts, decided to make such an issue about the contacts of someone who has made a career out of not having any.

Flashpoint

Tuesday, 23 June 2009   Tactics   5 comments 

The whole fuss shows the degree to which the political class has become so insecure in the last few years, that what would have passed for normal political activity has become almost impossible.

Poor Costello: Used to the end

Tuesday, 16 June 2009   Political figures   9 comments 

So by the end we got to the real nature of Costello’s ‘pretensions’ to the leadership, less about his ambitions than about a media and a political party refusing to face the vacuum in front of their eyes.

The unpopular Mr Rudd

Monday, 15 June 2009   Political figures   4 comments 

There is one aspect of Rudd’s agenda that both sets him apart from his peers but causes the most anguish with the media is Rudd’s disdain of the political class.

Peace dividend

Friday, 5 June 2009   The Australian state   4 comments 

Drift is one thing, but loss of control over the state apparatus is something else.

The true meaning of spin

Thursday, 4 June 2009   State of the parties   2 comments 

Labor put a positive gloss on the numbers yesterday, but ironically so did the coalition.