A tale of two Labor post-mortems
It’s interesting to contrast reports of two ALP reflections on the election result – one in Crikey on the thoughts of Victorian MP Martin Foley, and one in The Drum on a meeting of the NSW Right, penned by Glenn [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Text of the parliamentary reform agreement
… is to be found here. [Via Peter Martin]
A note on stability [Hung Parliament]
As we get closer to decision time, I’ve been reflecting on the idea of “stability” that seems key to the rural Independents’ choice or choices. I watched last week’s Q&A on repeat – I turned it off last Monday when [...]
Polls, polls, polls and the campaign for another election!
This morning’s papers are full of more petulance about the lack of an election result, and about polls. The poll being talked about was trumpeted by News Limited, but curiously didn’t emanate from either Newspoll or Galaxy – pollsters of [...]
Tony Abbott’s case for government
We’ve seen an increasing volume of bluster from the Coalition over recent days – clearly a coordinated strategy given the almost identical choice of words used by each front bencher (allowing for a lapse on Joe Hockey’s part – “centre [...]
Draft parliamentary reforms being negotiated by Independents
[Via Hayden Cooper on Twitter] The text of draft parliamentary reforms being negotiated by the Independents with both the ALP and the Coalition can be found here. Update: The SMH reports that Anthony Albanese says that Labor signed on to [...]
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