The view from Channel Nine Seven
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. I’m boycotting Channel Nine tonight, because I fear that the Mark Latham “controversy”/60 [...]
Blanche D'Alpuget's Bob Hawke PM
I’ve had a review of Blanche D’Alpuget’s new book, Hawke: The Prime Minister, published at The Drum. You can read it here.
The Hawke-Keating wars redux
Both Blanche D’Alpuget’s new book, Hawke: The Prime Minister, and Channel Ten’s new series “Hawke” have had a dream publicity run, and not just because of all the comparisons between the new PM and her silver-haired predecessor. On Monday and [...]
Is Julia Gillard the new Bob Hawke?
It probably hasn’t escaped folks’ attention that Julia Gillard has expanded the scope of her rhetoric about being consultative beyond the issues of governance, cabinet processes and caucus decision making. In all the statements she’s made since becoming PM, she’s [...]
Guest post by Legal Eagle: Earliest political memories
Cross-posted from Skepticlawyer. Today my daughter was playing with her pink superball while my son was asleep (it’s small, so she’s only allowed to get it out while he’s sleeping). I heard her mutter to her toys while brandishing the [...]
Labor takes a hit in the polls in Queensland and South Australia
I’m planning at some stage in the reasonably near future to write a longish post about Anna Bligh’s prospects (and I wouldn’t comment on Mike Rann’s, not being a resident of South Australia, and thus I don’t think able to [...]
Even the devil sometimes speaks true? Rudd, Labor and the 2010 election
By Mark Bahnisch on December 23, 2009
We have it on good authority, that of St Thomas Aquinas, that demons and evil spirits can sometimes speak the truth. Now, I’m not saying that Janet Albrechtsen falls into either of those categories, but for once I was interested [...]
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