Possum on “The Great Unhinging”
If there was a Walkley award for blogging, I think Possum’s new post – “Let the Great Unhinging begin” – would win by acclamation. The whole piece deserves reading, but I’d highlight this analysis of recent polls: A large proportion [...]
Roundtable: post-election politics and what the broad left and progressive movements can do about it.
I have for some time meant to create an open thread for discussion about how the broad left and progressive movements can most effectively intervene in Australian political life after the election. However people’s thinking on that question would obviously [...]
So where does the Gillard government go from here?
How will the promises made to secure the support of the rural Independents change the calculus on other promises made during the campaign? What’s likely to become a pressing issue first? What can be put onto the backburner to await a friendlier Senate from July 2011? What else can you think of?
NB: Paul Norton has published a complementary post – Roundtable: post-election politics and what the broad left and progressive movements can do about it.
The Tony Windsor furphy the press and opposition are spreading
The performance of the press gallery has been a disgrace over the last couple of days.
We have a Gillard minority government!
76-74, folks. Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott have supported Labor to form a minority government. Update: William Bowe reflects: Ultimately they deserve our gratitude for the patient and considered fashion with which they have navigated through their delicate position. Most [...]
Bob Katter supports Coalition; Windsor and Oakeshott to reveal their hand at 3pm
Bob Katter has supported the Coalition; and the other two Independents will reveal their hand at 3pm. Crikey has a liveblog, and ABC News 24 and News Radio are carrying Bob Katter’s press conference live. Update: Bernard Keane summarises Katter’s [...]
Last chance New Gubbermint divination thread
Whether Tony Windsor, Bob Katter and Rob Oakeshott know which way they’re going to jump is something I don’t know. But hopefully we’ll all know this afternoon, at around 2pm if Windsor and Oakeshott’s statements this morning to the press [...]
Professorial piffle
BobKat showed last night on Q&A that he could name drop De Tocqueville, Mill and Shakespeare just as well as David Burchell, but with more actual sense (and fewer allusions to Montesquieu, Rousseau and “the ancient Athenians”). Funny how political [...]
Noel Pearson weighs in
… and urges the country Indepedents to support Tony Abbott. The story is here. Pearson’s main issue seems to be the Queensland Wild Rivers legislation, which Brian wrote about recently. As the article notes, this intervention comes on the back [...]
2010 Hung Parliament roundtable #8
Will today be the big day? 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 and Milne on Q&A
Q&A tonight came close to living up to its pitch of unpredictability. The representatives of both wings of the political class – Nick Minchin and Peter Beattie – looked like going into meltdown as Christine Milne and Bob Katter, for [...]
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