The view from FNQ
From Friday’s Crikey: One thing I found when I was covering the state election last year for Crikey was that it was hard to sit in Brisbane and get a good read on what was going on in North Queensland. [...]
More wisdom from Shanahan
Today’s instalment: There are criticisms within the Liberal camp about the extent Mr Howard seeks the advice of his former chief of staff, Grahame Morris, and that Mr Howard appears to be running his own marginal seat campaign against Labor’s [...]
After Howard, the deluge
From today’s Crikey email: On the Crikey Politics Free-For-All blog Christian Kerr asked cheekily if any readers remembered Russell Cooper (the short term Premier of Queensland who was going to be the Nationalsâ?? salvation a few months out from the [...]
Smooth operator, smooth transition
From today’s Crikey email: Peter Beattieâ??s final legacy to Queensland (and federal) politics is characteristic of his modus operandi. The new Premier, Anna Bligh, will be able to execute the quick step Beattie was no longer capable of doing convincingly [...]
Breaking news: Premier Pete resigns
Peter Beattie has resigned as Premier of Queensland. Crikey is publishing a special email, and I’m in the middle of writing something for it now, so I’ll update this post with a bit of analysis in a few hours. In [...]
Newspoll and the Greens
The Newspoll in this morning’s Australian shows the Greens polling 6 per cent of the primary vote, down from 7.2 per cent in the 2004 election. Newspolls this year have consistently had the Greens vote fluctuating around the 5 per [...]
Queensland Libs – self-destructive one day, farcical the next
From today’s Crikey email: If there’s one thing the Queensland Liberals don’t get marks for (well, actually, there a lot), it’s originality. NSW colleagues having a divisive leadership battle? Hey, let’s do the same in Queensland, after a few weeks’ [...]
Rats, sinking ship etc. III
Over in the States, Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates and Secretary of State Condi Rice are fiercely leaking stories about internal dissent in the administration ranks – on a fairly regular basis. The most recent being their attempts to have [...]
Incumbency rules?
From today’s Crikey email: Incumbency, it seems, is the talk of the political town at the moment. Morris Iemma’s government in NSW seems set to repeat the Beattie and Bracks wins of last year, and when talk turns to the [...]
Desiccated coconut probably not Maroons fan
Queensland was supposed to be an electoral bastion for Howard. Allegedly, conservative Quincelanders just love a cold coconut cocktail. But Howard’s karma is coming back at him in a big way – not just through the big blowback from judgementgate, [...]
Metablogging at Walkley
Trevor Cook recently interviewed me for the MEAA’s Walkley Magazine. Unfortunately, the bloggercon being organised by Peter Black from QUT which Trevor wrote about has had to be postponed til August. Congrats to the Walkley subeditors for coming up with [...]
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