Liars, clunkheads or both
Laura Tingle is probably the country’s finest writer when it comes to sophisticated political analysis. That’s what Mark Scott said the other day. In her Canberra observed column this week she didn’t hold back: There are two possible explanations for [...]
Saturday Salon (Hung Parliament free edition)
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like. *Except election/hung parliament stuff, which should go on the latest topical post or relevant roundtable.
2010 Hung Parliament roundtable #6
Please use this thread for any breaking news and general speculation that isn’t quite on topic for any other recent hung-parliament posts.
Katter’s wishlist
Bob Katter has gotten into the wishlist business. I haven’t yet found the complete document, but if the aspects of it reported in the media are representative, it’s going to be pretty hard for either side of politics to give [...]
Short and longer term prospects for climate change policy
The agreement between Labor and the Greens (previous discussion here) contains the following paragraph: That Australia must tackle climate change and that reducing carbon pollution by 2020 will require a price on carbon. Therefore the Parties agree to form a [...]
Tony Blair: a “tinkling symbol”
I don’t know if anyone else remembers Tony Blair intoning verses from 1 Corinthians at Princess Diana’s funeral. I watched it. I wondered at the time if there was something in the nature of Englishness that made it seem apt [...]
Quick link: Tim Dunlop on the alternative universe where Mr Rabbit is a hero
Tim Dunlop’s post, “Why the Independents should support Abbott”, hits the mark in oh so many ways.
Wilkie supports Labor
News just in. Well, it looks like I was wrong and James Farrell might have been right that Andrew Wilkie’s support is the key to how the end game plays out. Labor now has a guarantee of 74 votes on [...]
The politics of the ALP-Greens alliance
I won’t bother to link to the media denunciations of the ALP-Greens agreement – suffice it to say that Paul Kelly thinks the Labor ‘brand’ is in danger (oh no!), someone or other is probably red baiting, and there are [...]
Interregnum mythbusting: “naturally conservative electorates”
One of the most amusing aspects of the hung parliament negotiations has been the discombobulation of MSM opinionistas. David Penberthy is one stellar example. His most recent piece for The Punch is a strange concoction of weirdness, unified only by [...]
Quick link: Peter Martin on Costingsgate
In an interesting article this morning, Peter Martin looks at the broader implications of the kerfuffle about the Coalition’s costings – how a bunch of firms and institutions have been dragged into the political questions around the whole Charter of [...]
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