The Abbott shadow ministry
… is here.
Tony Abbott’s case for government
We’ve seen an increasing volume of bluster from the Coalition over recent days – clearly a coordinated strategy given the almost identical choice of words used by each front bencher (allowing for a lapse on Joe Hockey’s part – “centre [...]
Quick link: Tim Dunlop on the alternative universe where Mr Rabbit is a hero
Tim Dunlop’s post, “Why the Independents should support Abbott”, hits the mark in oh so many ways.
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 [...]
Who’s actually ahead in the two party preferred vote? (And does it matter?)
The name of the game at the moment in Canberra is the competition between claims to “legitimacy” – a new concept in Australian politics, it would seem, as no one, I think, ever suggested John Howard should not form a [...]
Has Abbott done his dash?
Tony Abbott’s response to the country independents’ request for Treasury costings of his promises [see this previous post for details, and for Julia Gillard's response] is to offer them meetings with the Coalition’s accountancy firm and his shadow ministers. Peter [...]
Abbott’s Plan B?
On another thread, Josh makes the intriguing suggestion that Tony Abbott may not be taking negotiations to form government seriously, and preparing the ground for a claim that any Gillard minority government lacks “legitimacy”, particularly if the Coalition seat count [...]
What would an Abbott minority government be like?
This thread is a companion piece to Mark’s post on how a Gillard minority government might ideally operate. The advice about parliamentary reform and processes of governance and policy formulation surely applies to both sides, so I’ve decided to vary [...]
What next for the Party of No?
Laura Tingle has an interesting article in the Fin Review today, drawing a contrast between Julia Gillard’s inclusiveness in negotiations and Tony Abbott’s hard line partisan style. It may well be that Abbott’s approach, as she says, is not the [...]
The leaders’ speeches and what comes next in Federal Election 2010
Tony Abbott asked his supporters tonight to avoid “premature triumphalism” but that clearly wasn’t the mood in the room in which he spoke. I’m not sure that the “exuberance” he identified was all that helpful to him, nor the highly [...]
The contest between Gillardism and Abbottism
Early this month, I contested the idea that this campaign was a boring race. It didn’t take long for that notion to be junked. But the perception that there’s no salient difference between the two parties has had a stronger [...]
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