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Politics through the looking glass
The inversion of Australian democracy.In the Autumn issue of Meanjin.
Top end upended
Monday, 27 August 2012 State and federal politics 43 comments
Far from being “out of it” some politicians have been working hard to make the remote communities in the Northern Territory and Queensland practically avant-garde.
After July
Monday, 25 June 2012 State of the parties 6 comments
It has been forgotten now, but the opposition to the ETS was not an electoral ploy but a desperate attempt to save the Coalition’s brand.
The problem of the “political cycle”
Sunday, 8 April 2012 Key posts, Media analysis, State of the parties 31 comments
Politics is becoming more cyclical, but only because the nature of politics is changing from what it was in the 20th century.
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.
Book review: Paul Howes’s Confessions of a Faceless Man
Monday, 21 February 2011 Political figures, State of the parties, Tactics 22 comments
Can Australian politics be that insubstantial?
Review: George Megalogenis’s Trivial Pursuit
Thursday, 10 February 2011 Media analysis, State of the parties 11 comments
Megalogenis may lament the passing of reform, and the privileged role the media had in it, even if he cannot quite put his finger on what it was.
The Year of the Walking Dead
Thursday, 23 December 2010 Key posts, State of the parties 6 comments
What caught this blogger out was that the Labor factions still had some life in them. But now that they are back in charge, it is reassuring to see that they do not after all.
Ozileaks
Friday, 10 December 2010 Media analysis 7 comments
Like the US State Department, the press were being fed by Labor power brokers.
The last thing they need are ideas – ALP edition
Wednesday, 10 November 2010 State of the parties 18 comments
If Rudd was so powerful, how could he have been summarily dismissed within barely a blink of an eye?
The most important Newspoll ever
Monday, 21 June 2010 State of the parties 4 comments
As Labor’s base melts away, so does its program.
