Liberal dirt unit is working overtime
A quick survey of today’s broadsheets reveals that the Liberal Party dirt unit has been working overtime and is coming up with zilch. Apparently 13 ALP candidates are still listed as employed on government websites. So they MUST HAVE BROKEN [...]
Poor Dennis…
… is going to have to learn to deal with reality should the ALP win this election. In today’s GG the Shamaham breathlessly announces that the latest Newspoll survey of the marginal electorates demonstrates that Howard has “fought back in key marginal [...]
Costello begs for a chance to bore the nation to death
I was beginning to think that this campaign couldn’t get any more dull, then Peter Costello decided to bring the boring by the truckload. Apparently Peter Costello and Wayne Swan are going to have a stoush on live TV over [...]
The biggest news story of the week
US politics may never be the same. He has been a mainstay of the political reality through much of the Bush era. Indeed, for many, he epitomizes this reality. His support base has exploded with the emergence of Web 2.0 [...]
Manufacturing me-tooism
It’s fair to say that John Howard’s Indigenous referendum plan knocked me off my feet. I suspect that this is pretty much what it was supposed to do. My first instinct was to scour Howard’s speech to find the catch. [...]
Albrechtsen wants to try "the switch"!
The Australian election just became interesting. In today’s GG Janet Albrechtsen has called for John Howard to step aside in order to let Peter Costello lead the coalition into the election campaign. Mull over that for a few seconds. Albrechtsen [...]
Who else is getting excited about the Rugby World Cup?
The Rugby World Cup kicks off on Friday and I’m super-excited. For the first time in quite a while it looks like there are a whole bunch of teams in the mix to win this year’s cup. It’s no secret [...]
I guess Costello ate his foot for dinner
What a great way to bring up your half century. Peter Costello spent today denying accusations that he boasted to a table full of senior political reporters in early 2005 that he would have a tilt at John Howard by [...]




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