Equality – an update
Wednesday, 19 October 2016 Society, Tactics 5 comments
It is probably then best that such activists are looking to withdraw from the public sphere, since a majority support for same sex marriage that had little to do with them could turn into its opposite with their, and Labor’s, best efforts.
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.
Unity
Tuesday, 17 September 2013 State of the parties 6 comments
The will for unity merely reflects the reality of Labor today after the historic left-right battles and the more recent battles between the reformers and the power brokers have run their course.
An incomplete revolution
Thursday, 27 June 2013 State of the parties, Tactics 42 comments
When Labor is in a position to stop slapping asylum seekers about, we will know that a new political arrangement is falling into place.
Seamless
Monday, 17 June 2013 State of the parties 48 comments
If the unions switch to Rudd, it will be for the same reason they dumped him in the first place.
Whatever happened to the Asylum Seeker debate?
Monday, 10 June 2013 Key posts, State of the parties 18 comments
The problem that both parties now face is that having raised the asylum seeker “problem” for internal party reasons, the external conditions for solving it are no more favourable than they were in 2007-2008.
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.
Preparing for war
Sunday, 24 March 2013 State of the parties, Tactics 42 comments
You think it’s about Rudd v Gillard? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
No solution without revolution – an update
Friday, 22 March 2013 Tactics 24 comments
Crean was trying to find a compromise between a party power structure that has lost its relevance and a challenger whose popularity rests on not being part of it. It failed because things have gone past the point where a compromise is possible.
The phoney problem of ideology
Monday, 25 February 2013 Key posts, State of the parties 19 comments
It is the loss of that social base that Labor is struggling to adapt to, not some problem of ideology.