Prince William comes to town
A number of the commenters on the earliest political memories thread recalled having been taken as schoolkids to see Her Maj, and a number of us also recalled weird little pledges and scratchy recordings of ‘God Save the Queen’ being [...]
The NSW government, the media and four year terms
The Sydney Daily Telegraph, a newspaper which likes to see itself as some sort of courageous voice of the people, has been losing readers hand over fist, and more recently, an editor. The paper is also running a campaign for [...]
Labor states on the nose!!!
I’ve written before about why I think that the “media narrative” masquerading as psephological analysis that there’s some sort of automatic fall in support for state Labor parties because of some putative desire among voters to have different parties governing [...]
The Costa Diaries
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/costanswparliament.jpg" align=left Michael Costa has taken a leaf out of Mark Latham’s book… Forced out of office and Parliament? Write op/eds attacking your former party! LISTENING to Kevin Rudd at Council of Australian Governments meetings as he tried to [...]
Michael Costa sacked [Update: Iemma Resigns]
The only question is why it took Morris Iemma so long to see what everyone else could see plainly. Apparently Paul Keating had a hand in the decision. Update: Trevor Cook: Costa is a loud-mouth political bully who screams and [...]




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