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Election 2013 – we’ve set a date!
It’s finally happened! After all the speculation, after the incessant cries of ‘Election, now!’ from the Opposition, and the whimpers from the electorate of ‘how long will this never-ending campaign go...
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The media should not be the message
Sometimes I despair of our media, I really do. Today Attorney-General Nicola Roxon and Tertiary Education Minister Chris Evans announced their resignations from the Ministry and the Parliament. Evans...
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‘L’ Plate Cabinet or Safe Pairs of Hands?
There’s not going to be a blog about last week’s non-spill in the Labor Party. I considered it, but then … what was the point? Really? What could be said that wasn’t either pointing out the obvious, or...
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Election 2013: A tale told by an idiot
It’s time. Time for the media to bring out tired old speculation about the Labor leadership; time for obsessive focus on a single, arguably self-interested poll that indicates an ever-greater victory...
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Why the Menu Matters
By now, pretty much everyone’s seen, or at least heard about, that menu, produced for a fundraising dinner held for Liberal National Party member Mal Brough. The guest of honour was Shadow Treasurer...
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Dear media, write about something else
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s an election coming. It’s about this time we should be seeing politicians nailed to the wall about their record, and their policies. So what do we get from our media?...
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For the sake of the nation, the media should do its job
If you’re a reader of Fairfax newspapers, this is what you woke up to today: ‘It is time for Julia Gillard to stand aside as leader of the federal parliamentary Labor Party, as Prime Minister of...
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We can start the policy debate
In my last post, I took aim at The Age’s contention that it was ‘impossible’ to have a policy debate as long as Julia Gillard remained our Prime Minister. I stand by what I wrote then: as long as the...
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The return of Rudd – so now what?
Last night everything came to a head – the constant speculation, the outrageous op-eds, and the inevitable cries of ‘What the hell is going on here?’ from the Australian people. Faced with a petition...
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Going behind the hysteria to examine the PNG deal
Yesterday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced that Australia and Papua New Guinea had entered into a Regional Refugee Agreement, to address the issue of boat-borne asylum seekers. In a joint media...
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