The confusions of anti-politics
Tuesday, 15 July 2014 State of the parties 19 comments
This suggests the central confusion of anti-politics, while posing to be against politics, they are actually politics in its purest form.
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.
Rudd
Thursday, 14 November 2013 Political figures 32 comments
Rudd’s departure does not mean the Australian political system will be any less vulnerable to an anti-political attack either from within or without. It’s just that it is unlikely next time it will be done with such panache.
Unity
Tuesday, 17 September 2013 State of the parties 6 comments
The will for unity merely reflects the reality of Labor today after the historic left-right battles and the more recent battles between the reformers and the power brokers have run their course.
Relief
Monday, 9 September 2013 State of the parties 22 comments
The end of that tension in Labor is because Rudd’s failure has meant there is now no one in Labor who can turn an attack on the party’s existing power structures into an electoral asset.
An incomplete revolution – an update
Friday, 6 September 2013 State of the parties, Tactics 11 comments
Rudd’s problem was that he did not clarify why he was distinct from the party that had dumped him and the institutions that had blocked his return, which would have given the “New Way” slogan any meaning.
Momentum
Monday, 19 August 2013 State of the parties, Tactics 12 comments
In failing to make its anti-political attack on the Coalition, Labor is seeing it rebound and they being the “political” operators.
Caught in Howard’s “neoliberal” trap
Wednesday, 7 August 2013 Tactics 14 comments
Could it be that the RBA had more influence over election timing than Sussex St?
Running on empty
Monday, 5 August 2013 Tactics 11 comments
The common theme running through the message is a new way economic policy is being viewed, namely that government is not responsible for the state of the economy, rather just for protecting the electorate from the worst of it.
Realignment
Tuesday, 30 July 2013 State of the parties 14 comments
The political agenda we see now are the leftovers from a time when the major parties represented clear social bases in the electorate which they no longer do.
