That woozy, sinking feeling
Monday, 2 February 2015 State and federal politics, State of the parties 9 comments
The Queensland disaster is unsettling because it brings the Liberals closer to a leadership challenge in Canberra they don’t want to have.
What a technocracy looks like
Friday, 30 May 2014 State and federal politics 4 comments
The age of technocracy has passed and the age of anti-politics is now well and truly upon us.
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.
There is no cycle
Monday, 26 March 2012 State and federal politics, State of the parties 22 comments
There are no issues implications because the Queensland election didn’t really have any, it was more about the entire model of government.
Exposed
Wednesday, 3 August 2011 State and federal politics 11 comments
It’s the seeming lack of real content to Labor’s current unpopularity that probably makes them think it’s worth having a go.
Denial – NSW edition
Thursday, 31 March 2011 State and federal politics 7 comments
It is now becoming clear what caused the collapse of the NSW Labor government. There was no one running it.
Dead horse flogged
Monday, 28 March 2011 State and federal politics 6 comments
The lack of options is why they are less wanting to talk about reconnecting with the electorate than preferring to retreat up their own safe seats.
Labor’s technocrat moment has passed
Monday, 29 November 2010 State and federal politics 21 comments
‘Revival’ is too strong a word, but the Victorian Liberals did achieve at least a partial solution to a very important problem.
This is not normal
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 State and federal politics 18 comments
Both parties are just limping to election having nothing to say but how they might debate it if they did.
The real lessons from SA
Monday, 22 March 2010 State and federal politics, State of the parties 13 comments
While the Tasmanian result represents the decomposition of the old, the SA result reflects the weakness of the new.