Gillard/Rudd meme reality check
There’s been a bit of discussion about the latest installment in the media narrative, the Gillard breathing down Rudd’s neck meme, on the latest Spin thread. I should add to the list of tricks used to propel a non-story along [...]
Tony Abbott the self confessed wimp
Shaun Carney begins his latest column thus: TONY Abbott the unlikely leader has done a terrific job in the 5½ months in which he has been at the helm of the Liberal Party. I doubt that, somehow. It’s clear from [...]
What's the matter with Kevin Rudd?
Two articles in the two Fairfax metropolitan papers tell two very different stories about Labor’s backflip/clear the decks strategy. In the SMH, Lenore Taylor has been talking to Labor strategists. The target voters, it’s argued, are those in outer suburban [...]
Government squibs response to human rights consultation
The Australian Labor Party has long had a commitment to entrenching the protection of human rights, driven by a continuing tradition of legal liberalism associated with luminaries such as Gough Whitlam and Gareth Evans. Yet the ALP has also had [...]
Clive Hamilton and Higgins
The Greens are running Clive Hamilton in Higgins. As Andrew Norton observes, Hamilton criticising seems to be a politically ecumenical practice in the blogosphere. Guy Rundle puts a contrary view. I’m by no means enamoured of some of the ideas [...]
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