Rudd’s more like Latham than Turnbull is
Monday, 29 June 2009 Political figures 4 comments
Unlike Rudd, Turnbull does not lead a technocratic shell that is happy to leave its policies to its leader, but Australia’s last political party that is still desperately thrashing around on what it stands for.
Flashpoint – an update
Thursday, 25 June 2009 Tactics 2 comments
What we have seen in the last week is how destructive to both parties the current climate can be on the most minor of issues and from practices that would have been quite acceptable in the past.
It’s the politics, stupid
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 Political figures 4 comments
Turnbull, someone who has made a career out of his ability to nurture powerful contacts, decided to make such an issue about the contacts of someone who has made a career out of not having any.
Flashpoint
Tuesday, 23 June 2009 Tactics 5 comments
The whole fuss shows the degree to which the political class has become so insecure in the last few years, that what would have passed for normal political activity has become almost impossible.
Poor Costello: Used to the end
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 Political figures 9 comments
So by the end we got to the real nature of Costello’s ‘pretensions’ to the leadership, less about his ambitions than about a media and a political party refusing to face the vacuum in front of their eyes.
The unpopular Mr Rudd
Monday, 15 June 2009 Political figures 4 comments
There is one aspect of Rudd’s agenda that both sets him apart from his peers but causes the most anguish with the media is Rudd’s disdain of the political class.
Peace dividend
Friday, 5 June 2009 The Australian state 4 comments
Drift is one thing, but loss of control over the state apparatus is something else.
The true meaning of spin
Thursday, 4 June 2009 State of the parties 2 comments
Labor put a positive gloss on the numbers yesterday, but ironically so did the coalition.