Whitlam
Wednesday, 22 October 2014 Political figures, The Australian state 18 comments
It’s perhaps for the best that Gough’s not around to see the hash they’ll make of it.
A hollow debate
Monday, 7 April 2014 The Australian state 21 comments
The government has tried to use libertarian arguments to nullify and roll back a piece of anti-racist legislation but has nowhere to take it back to.
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.
What a farce looks like
Saturday, 28 January 2012 The Australian state 13 comments
All we needed was a Canberra farce and we have all we need to know.
Caught in a racial trap
Thursday, 26 January 2012 Key posts, The Australian state 68 comments
How do you change racial provisions in the Constitution when the entire infrastructure of land rights is based on it?
Culture war bores collide
Tuesday, 4 October 2011 The Australian state 55 comments
Racial/cultural separation, or whatever you want to call it, remains embedded as ever in the centre of our body politic
Asylum seekers: a panic of the political class
Thursday, 15 July 2010 Tactics 4 comments
Rudd touched a raw nerve of how Labor, especially in NSW, understands its decline.
The most important Newspoll ever
Monday, 21 June 2010 State of the parties 4 comments
As Labor’s base melts away, so does its program.
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 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.
