Class war dreaming

Thursday, 24 May 2012   State of the parties   33 comments 

The delusion of both sides of the political spectrum suggests we are building up to a full-blown political crisis yet to come.

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.

Book review: Lindsay Tanner’s Sideshow

Friday, 28 October 2011   Media analysis   7 comments 

Far from wishing to undermine it, the Australian media is joined at the hip to the current political system and is getting caught up in its problems.

It’s about authority, not the policies

Sunday, 16 October 2011   Tactics   19 comments 

The government mistake in still thinking it’s all about policy on asylum seekers, rather than its own authority, is why it cocked up so badly on Thursday.

Rudd, the anti-politics campaigner – Reprise?

Thursday, 29 September 2011   Political figures   7 comments 

This is a struggle over the dead soul of the Labor party.

What a political crisis looks like – 2011 edition

Tuesday, 30 August 2011   Key posts, State of the parties   9 comments 

This Parliament has an in-built disconnect with the electorate that is no more likely to be resolved at the next election as it was at the last.

Illegitimate – Budget edition

Saturday, 14 May 2011   State of the parties   9 comments 

Unlike Labor’s previous bouts of economic rationalism, say, as under Hawke and Keating, this time business aren’t especially asking for it.

Gillard’s problem – Part I

Wednesday, 16 March 2011   State of the parties   15 comments 

This is why the real issue is not that Gillard didn’t mean it when she said there wouldn’t be a carbon tax, but that she doesn’t mean it now when she says there will.

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