Review: Mark Latham’s Not Dead Yet
Monday, 29 April 2013 Key posts, State of the parties 26 comments
Latham is articulating a search for a new relationship of politics to society, based not on its representation, but on intervention on a degraded basis. You have been warned.
We’re all journalists now
Monday, 20 December 2010 Media analysis 11 comments
Calls to support Wikileaks and uphold the public’s need to get access to information is a moot point, because there is little sign of anything that would know what to do with it.
Rats get caught in the same mess
Tuesday, 14 September 2010 Media analysis 41 comments
The press are hardly blameless, but is the standard of reporting really deteriorating faster than the politics it’s covering?
Trying to do a Latham
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 Tactics 12 comments
Latham and Rudd may have not needed to consult their party, Abbott didn’t dare consult his.
Nelson’s lesson for Turnbull
Thursday, 27 August 2009 Political figures 7 comments
Nelson’s problem was not so much Rudd, but that his party would not let him follow the route Rudd has taken to adapt to current conditions.
Rate rise re-writing
Friday, 26 October 2007 Media analysis Comments Off on Rate rise re-writing
It is not the government’s support that has been falling away this year but the media’s confidence in it’s survival.
Labor’s being personal, the Libs can’t
Monday, 24 September 2007 Political figures Comments Off on Labor’s being personal, the Libs can’t
Maybe memory fails but it is hard to recall seeing childhood pics of Howard, Keating or Fraser in the run up to their election. Even Hawke, arguably the most self-absorbed PM, couldn’t top the personal backgrounding we have had on Rudd.
Let’s all forget about 2004
Thursday, 23 August 2007 State of the parties Comments Off on Let’s all forget about 2004
Although Rudd is now re-making the ALP to make what will turn out to be a very different Labor government than what has gone before, so far the Labor party going to this election under Rudd is not really that different than the one that followed Latham. But the immediate news of this election will be to see exposed federally what has already happened in the states, the crisis of the Liberal party.
Hip-pocket blindness
Thursday, 9 August 2007 Tactics Comments Off on Hip-pocket blindness
While the political class grapples with some of the most fundamental issues of how it exercises power, the media still seems to think this election is about little more than the monthly credit card statement.
Politics is not just polls
Wednesday, 11 July 2007 Tactics Comments Off on Politics is not just polls
The NT intervention has altered the dynamic of this campaign.
