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.
Disillusionment
Tuesday, 24 December 2013 State of the parties, Tactics 25 comments
If the left’s last hope is disruption from the Liberal right, so Abbott is helped by the phoney polarities of the left. The pas de deux continues.
The New Regionalism – an update
Wednesday, 4 December 2013 International relations, State of the parties, The Australian state 10 comments
The left have been portraying Indonesia as the victim and Australia as the bully but the reality is more the reverse.