Is pokie reform a seat-changer?
In Yet Another ALP Leadership Speculation Article, Michelle Grattan claims that some “nervous ALP backbenchers” want to go back to Rudd, abandon pokie reform, and therefore immediately run to an early election which Labor will inevitably lose but will preserve [...]
Yes, the polls are diabolical for Labor
Nielsen has the Coalition leading 61-39 2PP, with the primaries 51 Coalition-26 ALP. Greens primaries down a point to 11%. Michelle Grattan’s accompanying article points to other poll questions showing large fractions of the electorate hate the carbon tax. I [...]
Do the polls support the political narrative? Or; how to build a commentariat-bot
I’ve previously highlighted Dennis Shanahan and Malcolm Colless as barometers of the new new political narrative (‘Rudd in trouble! Gloss comes off! Action Man Tony Off To Vigorous Start!’). Michelle Grattan provided another twist on the mechanics of constructing such [...]
Ben Naparstek, The Monthly and the Julia Gillard "biography wars"
A truly bizarre editorial decision from Ben Naparstek, who occupies the chair at The Monthly, has resulted in the publication of a review of Jacqueline Kent’s biography of Julia Gillard by Christine Wallace, who is writing a rival biography of [...]
Bloggers journos derivative
In comments on the post here at LP about John Quiggin’s piece on the “picking up the phone” distinction some have made between journos and bloggers, Jack Strocchi asked: When have news journos derived their copy off bloggers? Some people [...]
A lapse in judgement? Or too many barristers?
The Coalition’s apparent belief that everything that they read in the (Australian) newspaper must be true has got them into all sorts of trouble this week. The bizarre spectacle of a gaggle of Liberal Senators piling on Treasury Secretary Ken [...]
The state elections and federal implications
By Mark Bahnisch on March 20, 2010
In tonight’s counts, it appears clear that the ALP has narrowly held on in South Australia, containing the swing against the government to 1.7% in the marginals, with much of the state wide anti-Labor swing washing through safe seats, while [...]
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