Your poll-free guide to the state of the seats in Queensland
Published in today’s Crikey email: We’re drowning in polls at the moment, and rumours of polls. I’ve been writing in recent days about the futility of over-interpreting polls, and it’s also been suggested that the key to divining this election [...]
Rudd’s words won’t hurt Labor, but it’s about more than hurt feelings
From today’s Crikey email: Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last night gave an interview to Phillip Adams on Late Night Live. This morning, Brisbane’s sole metropolitan newspaper characterised his successor Julia Gillard’s response as an apology to Queenslanders for hurting [...]
LP on TV
I’ll be appearing tonight on the tv version of The Drum at 6.30pm on ABC News 24. Update: I’ll also be interviewed on ABC News Radio drive time at around 5.45pm.
Refuting Bernard Keane: It’s not all our fault
Bernard Keane stirred things up a bit over the last few days in Crikey, with a provocative claim made in a two part series that the malaise of contemporary politics was fundamentally the fault of us citizens. We’ve outsourced politics, [...]
Week 2 of the campaign: The week that wasn’t
Please consider this a roundtable to reflect on the second week of the campaign in toto. Specific comments on particular issues in the campaign, or recent developments, should appropriately be placed on posts devoted to those issues.
Rudd's chances, the Gillard bounce and the blogosphere conversation
As an update to my link post yesterday, I thought it worthwhile drawing folks’ attention to Possum’s latest installment of pseph-y goodness. Of interest, aside from quantifying the increase in Labor’s primary vote under Gillard, is the fact that he’s [...]
My piece at The Drum on the political execution of Kevin Rudd
I’ve just had a piece published at the ABC’s The Drum on what I think the broader implications of the extraordinary series of events we’ve witnessed over the last 24 hours or so are. For the convenience of LP readers, [...]
David Cameron's Broken Britain
I have an article at the ABC’s The Drum today about the British election and its aftermath, focusing on how much change the eventual deal implies. NB: Previous LP British election coverage here. Update: Interesting piece from Seumas Milne.
Reaction to Abbott's parental leave plan
As noted, Abbott’s International Women’s Day announcement of a paid parental leave plan has created a lot of debate here on LP [read previous threads here]. And it’s attracted a lot of commentary in the wider blogosphere and media. Gary [...]
Guest post by Legal Eagle: Earliest political memories
Cross-posted from Skepticlawyer. Today my daughter was playing with her pink superball while my son was asleep (it’s small, so she’s only allowed to get it out while he’s sleeping). I heard her mutter to her toys while brandishing the [...]
The climate crisis, politics and our years of magical thinking
I’ve had a stab, in a guest post over at Overland, at looking at how the tendencies we’ve always had to succumbing to magical thinking make climate change a very difficult challenge for politics – particularly when we need to [...]
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