Stirling effort
As part of LP’s coverage of the election campaign, I’ll be reporting on what’s happening in the seat of Stirling, in Western Australia, one of the seats that the Labor Party is eager to win back from the Libs. In [...]
US sold us crippled Hornets in 80s, according to Beazley
Guy at Polemica comments on Beazley’s final speech to Parliament – a prolix, somewhat rambling, knowledgeable, and big-hearted political valediction entirely appropriate to the man. There’s lots of history to chew on, from Whitlam’s trip to China to the economic [...]
So what's he waiting for?
After all the frenzy that characterised the last few weeks of Parliament, we’ve now entered the phoney phoney campaign. Howard’s dropped a strong hint that he won’t be calling the election next weekend, so we’re looking at a November or [...]
The War on Queensland attracts another belligerent?
From today’s Crikey email: When you have the spectacle of a Queensland Nationals Senator moving a motion citing the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, you know something really bizarre politically is going on. Ron Boswell’s conversion to international [...]
Poached eggs much tastier than scrambled eggs
There’s a very comprehensive rebuttal of the biz “Workplace Reform” ads over at Talk It Out. Not a lot to add, except two quick points. The ads appear to be targetted to people hoping corporate profits will keep rising, and [...]
What is the economy, stupid?
The commentary from Rod Cameron on Lateline last night was interesting. As Christopher Sheil observes at Troppo, the key insight is that Costello’s trashing of Howard’s record as Treasurer and criticism of his profligacy as PM is very dangerous for [...]
(Untitled)
For the past few years, the Federal Opposition, the union movement, the Greens and folks from various other quarters have used the WorkChoices package as a flag to rally around in opposition to the Howard Government. In political terms, this [...]
Kid Stuff? (I)
â??Cyber bullyingâ?? scored a big, in depth report in the Saturday Age on March 10th. â??Cyber bullyingâ?? is what you call it when schoolkids use the resources of the internet to harass one of their schoolmates by sending them abusive [...]
Is Howard the new Beazley?
The dessicated coconut has announced that we shouldn’t “over-analyse the polls”. Though I bet Textor and other munchkins are pouring over the numbers in a bunker somewhere. Howard wants to continue his attack on accountability (!!!) but also to turn [...]
Burkean conservative attack lines
As was always probably predictable, the Brian Burke/CCC implosion of the West Australian government has gone feralfederal. On the face of it, it would seem unlikely that there’s any real source for scandal – because Federal Labor members wouldn’t have [...]
Wedge training
At Surfdom, Ken Lovell writes that Howard’s decision to send an additional 70 Australian troops to Iraq makes no apparent sense. Ken does concede that the decision can only be political, contradicting as it does many of the Dear Leader’s [...]
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