The contest between Gillardism and Abbottism
Early this month, I contested the idea that this campaign was a boring race. It didn’t take long for that notion to be junked. But the perception that there’s no salient difference between the two parties has had a stronger [...]
CPD post: Eltham on policy that can’t be implemented
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
CPD post: Eltham on avoiding the issues
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
CPD Post: Eltham on schools policy
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
The Labor leadership legitimacy post we had to have
There is no doubt that the removal last week of a first term Prime Minister, elected through a largely personal campaign (and I defy anyone to assert that the Kevin07 branding paled into insignificance beside Labor’s party image), caused some [...]
Rebutting the BER scare campaign
From my point of view, the campaign against the Building the Education Revolution as “wasted spending” by The Australian appears to consist largely of beating up any whinge without any context or fact checking, combined with inappropriate cost comparisons. As [...]
Budget 2010 preview and open thread
This is a thread for commentary, links and analysis for tonight’s Federal Budget. It’s being billed as an opportunity for Wayne Swan to save Kevin Rudd, which I think is pretty hyperbolic (and it’s always interesting to contrast the journosphere’s [...]
The Great Health Debate: the reaction
LP commenters have recorded their thoughts on this thread, but it’s also worth a distinct post to link to reaction elsewhere to today’s National Press Club debate on health between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Tim Dunlop has a great [...]
Stop the press! Media narrative wrong!
Ben Eltham has a neat piece in New Matilda today comprehensively detailing the reasons why the ‘Rudd quaking in his boots’ story is tosh. He makes a very good point about the relative inattention given to the Essential Research poll [...]
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