The Coalition’s primary vote recovery and its potential significance
Folks might recall that during Labor’s polling slump in the lead up to the removal of Kevin Rudd, Labor’s primary fell to a level in the 30s (where it sits again now), while the Coalition’s primary vote stubbornly refused to [...]
Gillard’s attack on Abbott’s great big new tax, and his gender fail
Bernard Keane picked something interesting out of last night’s debate (yes, it is possible – see previous LP discussion here and here): Watch for Labor to ramp up its attack on the Liberals’ paid parental leave tax. Gillard’s most effective [...]
Is Eric Abetz or Mark Latham the spectre of WorkChoices?
To get a good handle on how the election is playing, your best best is to watch the first ten minutes or so of any commercial news channel (though Nine and Seven have a bigger footprint than Ten). Tony Abbott [...]
The Rudd government's achievements
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. Of course, that’s the famous quatrain [...]
The next election campaign – the short version
A Nonymous Lefty isn’t impressed that Labor has started letterboxing anti-Abbott leaflets that obscure their ALP origins. Yes, it’s dodgy, but I’m not sure I can find the energy to get too outraged about it. Regardless, it’s interesting to see [...]
Good for two Coalition election losses?
The ACTU has released polling which finds that 53% of respondents believe that Tony Abbott would reintroduce WorkChoices under another name. Abbott’s been addressing some business functions of late, no doubt because he has to build some bridges and mend [...]
Tony Abbott and the politics of denialism
Tony Abbott appears to have taken that gospel saying about being “cunning as a serpent” to heart, if not the bit about being “gentle as a dove”. The problem with the media cycle these days for the political obfuscator is [...]
King Lear becomes a kingmaker, Hockey's treachery, and delay is the new denial
It’s probably time to take stock again of the Liberal leadership spill shenanigans. John Howard has obviously been having a word in a few journos’ ears. Tony Wright penned this piece for The Age yesterday, portraying the Ghost of Wollstonecraft [...]
Propositions on the Liberal right week of FAIL
Let’s sum up a few things about the CPRS/leadership shenanigans: (a) It’s been intriguing to see the focus of political discussion narrow to the Parliamentary dramatics. Journalists – and one suspects, many Liberal MPs – appear to have completely lost [...]
Legacy wars
It was the political debate of last week, and we missed it. But that’s ok – so did most of the rest of the population, I would imagine. The columns of The Australian were full of the ‘legacy wars’ – [...]
Even the devil sometimes speaks true? Rudd, Labor and the 2010 election
By Mark Bahnisch on December 23, 2009
We have it on good authority, that of St Thomas Aquinas, that demons and evil spirits can sometimes speak the truth. Now, I’m not saying that Janet Albrechtsen falls into either of those categories, but for once I was interested [...]
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