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A Sinking Ship?
There are plenty of political pundits likening the recent resignations from Julia Gillard’s Cabinet to rats leaving the proverbial ship. While the metaphor is close, it misses the main point. The real...
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The NDIS: What even is it and why do we need it
Recently our elected representatives have had themselves all lathered up about something called the National Disability Insurance Scheme. The disabled community seems pretty excited, but most other...
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Necessity is the Mother of All…
“Tony Abbott doesn’t hate women! Just look at his policy for Paid Parental Leave!” Well, maybe. One policy doesn’t prove anything, really. I don’t think that anyone is convinced that Abbott is a great...
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Promising a Great Deal
Rooty Hill has never felt so popular. I’m not going to do the thing of running a search on Google and then breathlessly reporting the number of hits (mostly because it is pretty stupid) but I think it...
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All Hanson
Pauline is BACK! Well, sort of. Earlier this week she threatened to run for election to the Federal Parliament. As you would no doubt know, this would not be the first time that Ms Hanson had sat in...
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A Conroy of No Confidence
I’ve been referring to the Daily Telegraph as the “Daily TerrorGraph” for quite a while now. I don’t remember who I picked the expression up from, but it fits just so neatly with the reporting style of...
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The State of Play – NSW
“This election will be decided in Western Sydney.” Labor’s NSW Secretary Sam Dastyari, 26 February 2013 Well, sort of. The definition of “Western Sydney” varies widely depending on exactly what point...
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Silencing Critics
Any of you who follow me on twitter or read my blog will by now have had enough of me talking about the right to silence changes in NSW. There is much more to say about that, and I have said those...
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A SUPER Change
Bernard Keane’s piece in today’s Crikey got me thinking (paywalled, sadly for some of you…) The thrust of his piece is that, in short, superannuation concessions are incredibly expensive. He’s right...
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The State of Play – NT
Electoral analysis is a whole different ball-game in the Northern Territory. Until the year 2000, the Northern Territory was only one electorate. For complicated constitutional and electoral reasons,...
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A Shot in the Dark
Are Labor just really, really bad at politics? That’s a conclusion you could easily draw. I don’t think it is possible to blame the media alone for the negative perception of the Labor party (although...
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Ready to Lead
Is Tony Abbott ready to be Prime Minister? Or, more to point, is the Australian public ready to vote for him? Of course, the answer to that question depends on what version of Tony Abbott we are...
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Woolly Thinking
Twitter folk (or, at least, the people I follow on Twitter) like nothing more than making fun of stuff. Today was no exception. Once the news of the Prime Minister’s photoshoot for Women’s Weekly was...
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Ain’t Got No Policy
This has become a depressingly predictable line from various anti-Abbott camps. Presumably the line arises out of the old “Noalition” line (which I quite liked, actually) – but does relentlessly...
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Kev’s Backup Plan
Is it possible to change the rules in a way that is so horrendously biased to you that it verges on cheating, but is also fiercely democratic? it turns out that the answer is yes. In short, Kevin Rudd,...
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Boundless Plains to Share
There is going to be an avalanche of anger at Kevin Rudd’s announcement today. That’s to be expected. Others will not doubt comment on the constitutionality and the morality the plan to ship...
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Cynical? Maybe
We don’t actually know that the “PNG solution” will win votes for Kevin Rudd So blogged David Jackmanson over the weekend. On one level, of course he is right. No one can know exactly how the voting...
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A TerrorGraphing Sight
I doubt very many people were surprised by the front page of today’s Daily TerrorGraph: The only thing that surprised me about that spread was the absence of some juvenile photoshopping – perhaps of...
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Standing there Diazed
I suppose it’s easy to be critical. Political nerds like me usually are. As often as not, our only connection to the political process is an internet connection and an unwavering belief that we know...
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Sophie’s choice
How do political parties choose their candidates? Serious question. What characteristics do parties looks for in a candidate? (I know I wrote about pre-selections here, but stick with me. I have more...
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