Qantas dispute: How Joyce’s actions could backfire
The actions of Qantas in locking out its workforce yesterday, led by CEO Alan Joyce who on Friday received a 71% increase in his remuneration, have huge potential to backfire. Bernard Keane encapsulates Joyce’s strategy: Alan Joyce’s logic is the elegant [...]
Is pokie reform a seat-changer?
In Yet Another ALP Leadership Speculation Article, Michelle Grattan claims that some “nervous ALP backbenchers” want to go back to Rudd, abandon pokie reform, and therefore immediately run to an early election which Labor will inevitably lose but will preserve [...]
Breaking the stalemate on asylum seekers and refugees II
It’s become increasingly clear that the High Court’s decision yesterday does more than block the ‘Malaysian Solution’. It also has the effect of radically challenging the validity and viability of a range of offshoring approaches to asylum seekers, both tried [...]
Quick link: Who goes to right wing rallies, and why?
I don’t always agree with Bernard Keane but I think he is right on the money on the question of the demographics and motivations of participants in right wing rallies such as the recent ones in Canberra, in his first [...]
Ken Henry resigns
ABC News: The Federal Government has confirmed Treasury secretary Ken Henry is resigning from his role. He will finish up early in the new year and will be replaced by Climate Change Department secretary Martin Parkinson. Confirming Dr Henry’s resignation [...]
The media, ‘reform’ and the interregnum
In my article for The Drum on Monday, I observed: What will be most interesting over the next few days and weeks will be whether the Australian commentary machine’s momentum finally switches – an actual event has occurred, but the [...]
Quick link: Bernard Keane on why it wasn’t leaks that gutted Labor
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey, contesting the Labor claims that all would have been rosy had it not been for leaks: But Labor is in trouble. Its problems aren’t so much, as was suggested by some commentators, that it is [...]
Quick link: Keane – “it’s just a jump to the left”
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey: A hung parliament and a new Senate in which the Greens will have the balance of power and, most likely, a presence of which few of their number would have dared dream. The mainstream media [...]
Rundle’s riposte to Keane on citizen apathy
Last week, I published a piece at The Drum refuting Bernard Keane’s claim that the current state of our politics is somehow primarily our fault as citizens. Yesterday, in Crikey, Guy Rundle also responded: Here we come back to Bernard [...]
Has Twitter made a difference to press focus on the trail?
I remarked earlier today that Labor has obviously adopted a communications strategy designed, in part, to short circuit the media focus on “distractions” and polls, and to bypass the circus taking place somewhere in Sideshow Alley, where Mark Latham lurks. [...]
Refuting Bernard Keane: It’s not all our fault
Bernard Keane stirred things up a bit over the last few days in Crikey, with a provocative claim made in a two part series that the malaise of contemporary politics was fundamentally the fault of us citizens. We’ve outsourced politics, [...]
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