Julia Gillard’s address to the National Press Club today
For mine, Julia Gillard, in her address to the National Press Club this afternoon, summed up the actuality of the situation our national politics is in quite nicely: Neither party convinced Australians that it alone should shape the nation’s course [...]
More entrail gazing: “party polling shows…”
I wrote yesterday about the futility of trying to make direct extrapolations from a multitude of polls to the election result. Today, we’ve seen one of the other standard tropes of campaigning – the claim that “leaked party polling shows…” [...]
When he’s not channelling Peter Costello, Tony Abbott channels Noel Pearson
One of the strange things about watching Tony Abbott on Q&A the other night is that he doesn’t actually appear to be a quick thinker. Any sort of question sees him raise his eyes to heaven in search of inspiration. [...]
Coalition claims to have economic policy
Apparently, there’s more to it than reciting “debt and deficit” like a mantra. Yesterday, in his address to the National Press Club, when he could wean himself off talking about talking to “real Australians” at Rooty Hill and similar places, [...]
The Roxon/Dutton health debate at the National Press Club
Nicola Roxon and Peter Dutton will be debating health at the National Press Club momentarily. I’ll be live tweeting here. Update: The debate is being live streamed here. Update: Roxon is very impressive, across the detail. The thing is that [...]
The Treasurers’ debate
Today, we have Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey going head to head at the National Press Club at lunch time. I won’t be watching it, because I have a full time job and I’m at work. That’s the problem with [...]
Leaders’ debates, postmodern style
Voters actually watching tonight’s debate between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, as opposed to the Worm or the Twitter feed, would have heard a lot about “fair dinkum” “honest, decent Australians” and an “economic plan” or “a better way”. Oh, [...]
Turns out people do watch day time tv
Last night, I made a point about the claim that the Great Health Debate was unimportant, because, as most munificently expressed by Grahame Morris, no one (important) watches day time television. I wrote: I wouldn’t be so quick to assume [...]
So how about that Worm?
On Lateline last night, Laura Tingle made a point that she’s been developing in her Friday columns in the Fin Review. Tingle argues that the parties’ current financial crisis (caused by a drop in corporate donations associated both with the [...]
The Great Health Debate: the reaction
LP commenters have recorded their thoughts on this thread, but it’s also worth a distinct post to link to reaction elsewhere to today’s National Press Club debate on health between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Tim Dunlop has a great [...]
Laurie Oakes claims Kevin Rudd proposed a Kirribilli style deal to Julia Gillard on 23 June
By Mark Bahnisch on July 15, 2010
In the q&a after a fairly predictable speech by the Prime Minister on economic policy at the National Press Club today, Laurie Oakes asked her a question which implied that Kevin Rudd had indicated, on the night of June 23, [...]
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