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 [...]
End of the road for Glenn Milne?
There’s an intriguing little piece by Jason Whittaker in Crikey‘s media briefs today, implying that Glenn Milne’s days as a columnist for the News Limited Sunday papers (and full time staffer) are over. I wonder what that signifies?
Lame claims: invoking the Reserve Bank and Treasury politically
Sometimes, in politics, it might be better to remain silent. Glenn Milne’s latest intervention, talking up a line from Liberal MP Scott Morrison, has to be one of the lamest ever political attack lines. [For those who don't want to [...]
The Liberals, women and the Mad Monk
Pavlov’s Cat made a very incisive comment here recently, apropos of the silly push for Tony Abbott to be leader of the Liberal Party (which seems to have disappeared ever since Malcolm got ‘back on the front foot’, ‘muscled up’, [...]
News Limited's partisan nonsense actually a disaster for the Liberals
Various News Limited scribes on the weekend opined (all speaking in the voice of Tony Abbott’s ventriloquist dummy – it couldn’t be more obvious) that Malcolm Turnbull had set himself the task of tearing Rudd down in order to win. [...]
Milne land
Peter Costello announces he’s retiring from Parliament, Malcolm Turnbull implodes, and therefore Glenn Milne needs a new bandwagon. He’s found one. Tony Abbott for PM. If the polls haven’t turned around by Christmas, etc. This must be what John Hartigan [...]
Rudd reshuffles
Kevin Rudd has announced a bigger reshuffle than most observers were expecting – with Greg Combet and Chris Bowen the big winners. Jan McLucas and Bob Debus have been dropped from the frontbench. No sign of the much touted Mark [...]
Newspoll Monday: Labor 56-44
Shanahan gets it right: Even the desperate hopes of some Liberals that the improvement in parliament two weeks ago that saw Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon on the rack have proved forlorn. When jobs are being lost, the economy is contracting [...]
Confidential sources
Glenn Milne used to be frequently accused of being a mouthpiece for Peter Costello. Guess who he’s talking to now? Pyne, one of Turnbull’s key leadership backers, has now been promoted into the frontline education portfolio and it is Julia [...]
Media narrative demands Rudd's head on a platter according to Newspoll timetable
By Mark Bahnisch on June 14, 2010
By way of ‘progressing the story’ from Saturday’s round of demands for Kevin Rudd’s political execution from has been Labor figures and mining company director Keith De Lacy, The Australian‘s caravan has moved on. Over the weekend, the paper made [...]
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