What a political crisis looks like – Climate change edition
Wednesday, 30 September 2009 State of the parties 6 comments
Climate change has become the issue that is carrying the Coalition parties downstream not just away from the electorate, but even from their own base.
Only the end of the beginning
Monday, 28 September 2009 International relations 6 comments
Before a sunrise, there has to be a sunset.
Playing with their heads
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 Tactics 11 comments
It is classic Rudd. Not just making a mockery of what was supposed to be the fault-lines of the Australian political system, but locking the opposition increasingly into the international framework that is setting the domestic debate.
The (little less) popular Ms Gillard
Tuesday, 15 September 2009 Political figures 5 comments
It could be possible that rather than Rudd needing to fear Gillard, there could come a point when the threat is the other way round.
Rights and wrongs
Tuesday, 1 September 2009 The Australian state 10 comments
While the right and left have argued over the nature of the punishment, what we have seen with the intervention is a denial of a basic right in front of the law to be judged whether to receive the punishment in the first place.
