Julia Gillard’s address to the National Press Club today
For mine, Julia Gillard, in her address to the National Press Club this afternoon, summed up the actuality of the situation our national politics is in quite nicely: Neither party convinced Australians that it alone should shape the nation’s course [...]
Who’s actually ahead in the two party preferred vote? (And does it matter?)
The name of the game at the moment in Canberra is the competition between claims to “legitimacy” – a new concept in Australian politics, it would seem, as no one, I think, ever suggested John Howard should not form a [...]
Measuring waste
Nicholas Gruen recently did an opinion piece for the Australian Financial Review pointing out that Labor sold itself short, turning strengths into weaknesses. The main example he used was the BER, to which I’ll return shortly. I heard Brian Loughnane, [...]
That was good, right?
I went looking at Club Troppo for something Nicholas Gruen wrote in the Fin Review. I thought he may have posted on it on the blog. Instead I found a trick shot by Roger Federer. Unbelievable!
Footy finals
Winter is almost at an end, and with the longer, warmer days Melburnians clean off the barbeque, tune the plasma, and look forward to four weekends of finals football. Those with “corporate” connections, or the combination of the right club [...]
Andrew Wilkie’s “list of priorities”
Andrew Wilkie has released a 20-point list of priorities. My very quick take is that the national ones are things that Labor should be doing anyway (and something the Greens would mostly support) , but I’ve no idea about how [...]
2010 Hung Parliament Roundtable #4
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Spotlight the Spin
A weekly look at media spin tactics. Much as we decry the trend towards horse-race commentary masquerading as journalism, it’s worth keeping a close eye on the jockeys all the same. Not just politics either: there’s plenty of spin going round in all fields.
Lazy Sunday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
2010 Hung Parliament roundtable #3
Please use this thread for any breaking news and general speculation that isn’t quite on topic for any other recent hung-parliament posts.
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