Disaster politics
Thursday, 31 July 2014 International relations 15 comments
The last few weeks have reminded that in recent years something rather unpleasant has entered politics.
9/11 – the event that never happened
Monday, 12 September 2011 State of the parties 8 comments
9/11 and the War on Terror didn’t mark the start of Labor’s problems, it marked the temporary suspension, for about five or six years, of the Coalition’s.
Fraser: The right goes all mushy
Thursday, 27 May 2010 Political figures 19 comments
The problem for Fraser is not that the Liberals are moving to the right as such but that there is no real basis for them doing so.
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?
Only the end of the beginning
Monday, 28 September 2009 International relations 6 comments
Before a sunrise, there has to be a sunset.
Too big to fail
Monday, 30 March 2009 International relations 2 comments
In effect the US government is putting an economic gun to the head of the other major economic powers and doing to the rest of the world what the major US financial institutions did to it.
End of an era: The Liberals
Thursday, 20 December 2007 State of the parties Comments Off on End of an era: The Liberals
If the Liberals’ problems are only about Howard being in charge, now that he has gone, their problems should be over, right?
The unmentionable rears its head
Thursday, 22 November 2007 Tactics Comments Off on The unmentionable rears its head
Howard is right in saying that Labor is a friend to terrorism is not part of his campaign. The question is, why not?
Hand it to them on a plate …
Thursday, 11 October 2007 Tactics Comments Off on Hand it to them on a plate …
The danger with McClelland’s speech was that it momentarily revealed Labor’s core weakness. Labor is a party that has lost its historic role and its basis for representing the interests of a significant section of the electorate. Adrift from a real social base, its policies had reflected more the moral positions of a group of individuals like the Australian Democrats than that of a party of government. That was the truth that was glimpsed last election with Latham’s forestry stance and came back again on Monday night.
Me-tooism, but not you
Wednesday, 10 October 2007 Media analysis Comments Off on Me-tooism, but not you
Tactically, Rob McClelland’s proposal to oppose the death penalty for the Bali bombers would have to be the worst thing to have come from Labor’s campaign all year. It was so off-message that reports Rudd did not know the content of the speech could be credible.