September 22, 2008 – 10:21 am
The Australian and its splendidly tonsorial political editor Dennis Shanahan are almost back to the sort of peak form that made the combination a byword for polling-based fantasy through the long months of mid 2007. Todays’ P1 banner “Turnbull puts life into the Libs” is a cracker, based on polling that shows an 8% pump [...]
September 15, 2008 – 9:00 pm
Amazing how you warm to these people in their death throes. Apparently Nelson spoke brilliantly this evening. Full of passion. Feelings at full unimpeded flow. Who knew! This is a gutsy move. His best move. A crap hand played with bold decisiveness. For once. Once Costello declared it looked like Turnbull’s for the picking. But [...]