Leadership is True North for our political compasses
What is this malaise that’s gripping Australian voters? According to the latest opinion poll we’re deeply unhappy with Julia Gillard (disapprove 50%, approve 37%) yet we still prefer her to Tony Abbott...
View ArticleLess smirk, more political analysis please
I should be surprised at today’s “nah, na, na, na” piece by Lenore Taylor ridiculing the Coalition’s dire descriptions of the Greens’ influence in Australian politics, as evidenced by this week’s...
View ArticleHave the Greens peaked already?
So here we are, teetering over the cusp of 2012. This is the year that apparently will make or break the major party leaders, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott. It’s the year that kicks off the long...
View ArticleExposing Rudd camp’s attempt to rewrite history
Australians have witnessed considerable rewriting of the political rulebook over the past decade. Mark Latham ran an unconventionally hokey campaign in 2004 that almost got him elected. He focussed on...
View ArticleIs Camp Rudd trying to influence Newspoll?
I thought it would be interesting to examine recent political events to see whether there’s evidence that Camp Rudd has been attempting to influence Newspoll results. I’ve chronologically listed key...
View ArticleIf not love then, at least, respect
Here’s my latest piece for the King’s Tribune… There’s an old fashioned quality that might be creeping back into Australian federal politics. I say old fashioned because you don’t hear it mentioned...
View Article#Kevenge2: It’s not on until it’s on
That’s the problem with leadership challenges: they’re not on until they’re on. The twice-spurned-but-hopes-to-be-vindicated-Prime Minister-in-waiting, Kevin Rudd, won’t declare his hand until he has...
View ArticleCrean, Rudd and WTF
Following my post on the leadership spill that might or might not be on, readers have been requesting that I write a piece to explain what actually transpired with the leadership spill that almost was....
View ArticlePatsys, players and the future of Australia’s political media
Here’s my latest post for the AusVotes 2013 federal election blog… The most significant thing that emerged from the mea culpas and post mortems that littered the coup-that-wasn’t battlefield was the...
View ArticleRudd is taking us for fools
How can anyone take a benign interpretation from Kevin Rudd’s interview on 730 last night? If Rudd’s genuine intention was to extinguish the smoking embers of his supporters’ expectations, why insist...
View ArticleKevin, fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me
I’m not a fan of Kevin Rudd. This antipathy has very little to do with politics and everything to do with good government. My view was formed during Rudd’s previous tenure as Prime Minister when I was...
View ArticleRudd the Contender
Here’s my latest piece for The King’s Tribune… It started as a tiny whisper, keening like a solitary mosquito as I listened to Kevin’s “I’m a contender” speech before the leadership vote. “People want...
View ArticleRudd’s quick fixes
I seem to be on a roll with Kevin posts at the moment… Here’s my post for AusVotes 2013, where I canvass the four problem issues that Rudd has neutralised in preparation for an election that I predict...
View ArticleAnd the winner is … in the eye of the beholder
In my post for The Drum this week I’ve looked at the Leaders’ Debate.
View ArticleRudd’s doublespeak on marriage equality
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm While the rest of the known universe was boggling at the audacity of Tony Abbott uttering the question...
View ArticleAbbott’s ‘shut up’– strategy or impulse?
Here’s a post I wrote today for Guardian Australia on Tony Abbott’s “does this man ever shut up?” comment about Kevin Rudd last night at the Peoples’ Forum. By my reckoning it was more strategy than...
View ArticleNo jackpot for Rudd at Rooty Hill
Here’s my take for Guardian Australia on last night’s Peoples’ Forum at Rooty Hill RSL Club and Kevin Rudd’s strategy to shorten Tony Abbott’s lead on economic competency.
View ArticleRudd’s tears before bedtime
Rudd’s tears before bedtime. Regular post for The Hoopla.Filed under: Politics Tagged: Joe Hockey, Kevin Rudd, parliament, Question Time, Tanya Plibersek, Tony Abbott, Tony Burke
View Article2013 in politics: the power of three
Considered the holiest of numbers by Christians and Wiccans alike, the number three has eerily presided over our past political year. From people to politics and policies, the rule of three was...
View ArticleTony Abbott’s high-stakes expectations game
After four years of watching the Rudd and Gillard governments do it so badly, it’s morbidly fascinating to see the Abbott Government play a particularly high-stakes expectations game with the...
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