An incomplete revolution
Thursday, 27 June 2013 State of the parties, Tactics 42 comments
When Labor is in a position to stop slapping asylum seekers about, we will know that a new political arrangement is falling into place.
Control
Monday, 24 June 2013 State of the parties, Tactics 8 comments
For the union and factional leadership at the federal level, the obvious path to recovering control over the party is to turn it into a parliamentary rump.
Seamless
Monday, 17 June 2013 State of the parties 48 comments
If the unions switch to Rudd, it will be for the same reason they dumped him in the first place.
Whatever happened to the Asylum Seeker debate?
Monday, 10 June 2013 Key posts, State of the parties 18 comments
The problem that both parties now face is that having raised the asylum seeker “problem” for internal party reasons, the external conditions for solving it are no more favourable than they were in 2007-2008.