Still searching for 2001
Friday, 30 October 2009 Media analysis 8 comments
The media dived into this issue two weeks ago expecting a rerun of 2001. When none occurred, it conducted it on its own, starring in a morality play of one.
Another Howard bubble finally bursts
Monday, 26 October 2009 Tactics 5 comments
Rudd was calling the bluff that Turnbull and the Liberals had been playing, namely that Howard had a real policy that they could return to rather than a political game whose time had passed.
A losing game for Labor – an update
Thursday, 22 October 2009 International relations 4 comments
While Rudd’s Indonesian solution looks like Howard’s Pacific one in practice, in political terms it indicates a shift.
A losing game for Labor
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 Tactics 5 comments
What’s worse, earning a trade out of human misery or making politics out of it?
A pathetic attempt to look in control
Thursday, 15 October 2009 Tactics 3 comments
Chris Uhlmann castigated Rudd for not using his political capital to take a less populist line on asylum seekers, but in reality there is no political capital.
Howard/Nelson/Turnbull is not the problem
Monday, 12 October 2009 State of the parties 4 comments
At no time has the party ever had its leadership calculations so openly determined by their complete loss of confidence in their ability to recover government in the foreseeable future.
Tony Abbott: too clever by half
Friday, 9 October 2009 Political figures 8 comments
The irony is that Abbott is doing what Turnbull did in reverse, but with the same negative consequences.
A staged implosion – Round 2
Thursday, 8 October 2009 State of the parties 6 comments
Now when Turnbull, the only one in the Liberal Party who seems to have actually wanted to lead it over the last few years, is gone, the vacuum is likely to come back with a vengeance.
It’s the Coalition that’s on a suicide mission, not Turnbull
Tuesday, 6 October 2009 Media analysis 8 comments
Unless Turnbull actually wants to lead the Liberals for the sake of it, which is unlikely, his threat over the Liberals adopting a negotiating position on the ETS is not a death wish but simply a matter of fact if the Coalition is to have any hope of getting a reasonable result at the next election.