The year Australian politics imploded

Sunday, 29 December 2013   State of the parties   30 comments 

2013 could be summed up as the year when neither Labor under Rudd, nor the Coalition under Abbott proved capable of filling the gap left by the exhaustion of Labor’s historical project under Gillard.

Disillusionment

Tuesday, 24 December 2013   State of the parties, Tactics   25 comments 

If the left’s last hope is disruption from the Liberal right, so Abbott is helped by the phoney polarities of the left. The pas de deux continues.

The New Regionalism – an update

Wednesday, 4 December 2013   International relations, State of the parties, The Australian state   10 comments 

The left have been portraying Indonesia as the victim and Australia as the bully but the reality is more the reverse.