The week the Liberal party died
Monday, 27 August 2018 State of the parties 14 comments
The contempt the party showed the public was not just in not even bothering to make it about them, but the condescending attempts to “humanise” Dutton as though that was going to somehow compensate.
The delusions of the Australian right
Tuesday, 21 August 2018 State of the parties 6 comments
Finally, we can stop the pretence. The veneer of electoral rationale that has covered the leadership turmoil of the last decade finally fell away yesterday.
Sinking expectations
Monday, 30 July 2018 State and federal politics, State of the parties 8 comments
Bill Shorten had what was for him a stunning Saturday night, managing to do what every federal opposition leader has done without fail for a century – hold on to seats in a by-election. Even if regular readers of this blog will recognise this as damnation of faint praise, the same thing repeated all across […]
Leadership instability over nothing
Saturday, 30 June 2018 Political figures, State of the parties 5 comments
Here’s a question: what program will Labor run to the next election on? If the answer it that it’s too early to tell, they’ll reveal their hand closer to the time, don’t want to make themselves a target etc. etc. etc then here’s another: what program did they run on at the last one? If […]
The destructive Tony Abbott
Thursday, 10 May 2018 Political figures, State of the parties 5 comments
Maestro. The ACMA’s ruling that ABC political editor Andrew Probyn had breached impartiality rules over a report on Tony Abbott was silly. Sure, it was editorialising, but that’s hardly been unknown to the ABC, not least by Probyn’s predecessor.
Two horse race
Monday, 9 April 2018 Key posts, State of the parties Comments Off on Two horse race
In Australia, politics has long been little more than team sports.
Sandbagging
Monday, 19 March 2018 State and federal politics, State of the parties 1 comment
Like two skilled limbo dancers, the major parties managed to stay on their feet this weekend despite the bar getting lower. And lower the bar certainly got.
Retail
Sunday, 18 February 2018 State of the parties, Tactics 8 comments
I am not here to moralise. Turnbull, 15 February 2018 This creeping notion that women need protection from men, that we are weak creatures against men’s rampant desire for sex, is not good for women. It’s regressive. Gay Alcorn, Guardian Over the last couple of weeks political journalists have been conducting a debate on the […]
No Resurrection – an update
Monday, 3 July 2017 State of the parties 6 comments
No wonder Abbott’s attempt to make this about principles is being given a bit of a run, because the leadership implosion that is actually happening is just a little to awkward to contemplate.
No resurrection
Tuesday, 18 April 2017 State of the parties 4 comments
If the Liberals decide to take back Abbott as their own Jeremy Corbyn, the realignment could come sooner.
