Quick Link: Pure Poison on the OO on The Greens
Pure Poison notes an Opposition Organ (how nice is it to be able to continue to say that?) editorial with lots of bad advice for Julia and a remarkably candid comment on the paper’s attitude to The Greens. From the [...]
The politics of the ALP-Greens alliance
I won’t bother to link to the media denunciations of the ALP-Greens agreement – suffice it to say that Paul Kelly thinks the Labor ‘brand’ is in danger (oh no!), someone or other is probably red baiting, and there are [...]
Is Wilkie key to the end game?
Over at Club Troppo, James Farrell thinks that Andrew Wilkie may be the key to the resolution of the negotiations over who will form government. I’m not so sure. I suspect Wilkie will end up supporting neither side. Whether or [...]
Why process is important: Another perspective on parliamentary and donations reform
One of the most interesting aspects of the agreement between The Greens and the ALP is the way in which it promises to put flesh on the bones of parliamentary reform. A number of clauses envisage combined committees of parliamentarians [...]
Agreement between The Greens and the ALP released
Agreement has been reached between The Greens and the ALP on the conditions for The Greens’ support of a Labor minority government. The agreement can be read here. Much of the document concerns process – both in terms of liaison [...]
The Left, the independents and “new politics”
There was an interesting micro-debate on Twitter the other night between me, Tad Tietze and Jason Wilson, riffing off Dr_Tad’s scepticism about the “independents are our saviours” meme. That’s expanded on at much greater length at Left Flank. I’d thoroughly [...]
The fracturing of the two party system
Following on from Kim’s post, with whose reasoning I agree, I think it’s worth making a point about the parallel decomposition of the two party system. This is most starkly illustrated by looking at the AEC’s national count, which distinguishes [...]
Quick link: Bowe on what’s happening in the Senate
William Bowe has all the news on the shifting dynamic in the Senate. We know The Greens have won a Senator in each state, bringing them up to 9 Senators when the Senators elected yesterday take their seats on 1 [...]
Quick link: Keane – “it’s just a jump to the left”
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey: A hung parliament and a new Senate in which the Greens will have the balance of power and, most likely, a presence of which few of their number would have dared dream. The mainstream media [...]
The electoral imperative for the independents, The Greens and the ALP
One of the interesting parallels for this campaign is obviously the British election result – and Penny Wong was right to say that George Brandis was running the same sort of agenda to try to bump the conservatives into office, [...]
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