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By Mark Bahnisch on July 6, 2009
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. [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged Christian Kerr, Dennis Shanahan, Glenn Milne, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Lenore Taylor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership crisis, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Media, News Limited, Rudd government, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Abbott, Utegate |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 15, 2008
It’s on. Brendan Nelson’s thrown down the gauntlet. The Liberal Party will determine its leadership tomorrow morning after Nelson called on a spill. Perhaps his capital E emo man performance in Parliament today was his audition – or maybe he’d [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged brendan nelson, Brendan Nelson leadership spill, Bruce Billson, Costello memoirs, leadership spill, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on September 15, 2008
I’ve got a question about the Costello memoirs. Is anyone going to rush down to the bookshop today and hand over $55 of their hard earned for a copy? I mean – courtesy of the neverending promo show – we [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Media, Politics | Tagged 2007 federal election, ALP, Andrew Robb, brendan nelson, Costello memoirs, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 12, 2008
The Fin Review ran today with a cover story on Peter Costello’s legacy – not on the Liberal leadership but as Treasurer. It appears to be an article of faith – based on a questionable analogy about the supposed damage [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Media, Polls | Tagged brendan nelson, Costello book, Costello memoirs, economic management, fiscal policy, howard government, Joe Hockey, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 11, 2008
Hardly surprising, I must say, to read that Peter Costello has dumped on Howard in his book and has also ruled out standing for the Liberal leadership. What a petulant and self-indulgent performance.
Posted in Politics | Tagged brendan nelson, Costello book, Costello memoirs, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Costello |
By Kim on September 11, 2008
Now that the Howard gubbermint is ancient history – except in the memoirs of the ghost of Peter Costello who wants you to know that Howard LIED six times and failed to hand him the leadership on a platter (ps. [...]
Posted in Education, History, Howardia, Media, Politics | Tagged ALP, Anna Clark, Culture Wars, education policy, history curriculum, History wars, howard government, John Howard, Julia Gillard, keith windschuttle, kevin donnelly, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Manning Clark, national curriculum, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, Rudd government, stuart macintyre |
By Kim on September 8, 2008
Via The Poll Bludger, the same old same old from Newspoll. I think what Rod Cameron had to say on Lateline had a lot of merit – voters will give Kevin Rudd at least another year before making a final [...]
Posted in Polls | Tagged ALP, brendan nelson, Essential Research, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, Newspoll, Peter Costello, political analysis, Polls, psephological analysis, psephology, Rod Cameron, Rudd government |
By Kim on September 2, 2008
In the wake of the punditariat’s latest game of deconstructing each parliamentary interjection by The Great Pretender and wistfully wishing his incoherent comedy lines on the public, it’s worth taking a step back and asking whether – even if you [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged Christian Kerr, Glenn Milne, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, News Limited columnists, parliament, parliamentary theatrics, Paul Keating, Peter Costello, political invective, press gallery, question time |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 2, 2008
As Dennis Atkins observes, Brendan Nelson yesterday took what appeared to be a calculated gamble in breaking the convention that senior pollies don’t comment on the Reserve Bank’s interest rate decisions. Nelson called for a cut of 50 points in [...]
Posted in Economics, Media | Tagged ALP, Blogging, blogosphere, brendan nelson, cash rate, Christian Kerr, emo man, interest rate cut, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello, political blogging, reserve bank, Rudd government, Wayne Swan |
By Kim on September 1, 2008
Somehow I’m not feeling the Costello excitement: After Gillard taunted him in the parliament last week about his publisher’s motto, “books with spine”, he responded: “If she bought a copy, I might sign it for her. She could take it [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged brendan nelson, Glenn Milne, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, Liberal Party, News Limited columnists, Peter Costello |
Newspoll Tuesday: Labor 56-44
By Kim on August 26, 2008
Ok, in the parallel universe that is press reporting of polls, we get this from the West Australian: Extensive Olympics coverage over the past two weeks may have pushed politics out of the minds of many Australians and be responsible [...]
Posted in Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, brendan nelson, Coalition, Costello memoirs, Dennis Shanahan, Essential Research, federal voting intentions, Kevin Rudd, Labor, latest Newspoll, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership instability, News Limited commentators, Newspoll, Peter Costello, political journalism, polling, psephological analysis, state voting intentions | 14 Responses