Activity at this site will be pretty light in the coming month or so, as I will be hard at work on my guide to the March 24 New South Wales election (among other things). I will at some point knock together a preview of the by-election to be held for the Western Australian state [...]
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Bryan’s back
Saturday, November 11, 2006 – 5:41 pm
Bryan Palmer’s seemingly endless week offline is over at last.
The fix is in
Thursday, June 22, 2006 – 3:58 am
Back-bench revolt may be the flavour of the month in Liberal ranks, but that didn’t stop the government’s nefarious Electoral and Referendum (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Bill emerging from the Senate unscathed yesterday. Jack Lang never spoke a truer word than when he told his young pupil Paul Keating, “always put your money on [...]
Till death us do part
Monday, May 29, 2006 – 5:00 am
It’s been a long-standing article of faith at this site that Queensland state politics will be dominated by Labor until the Liberals elbow the Nationals aside and assume their rightful place as the senior coalition partner. But given the Nationals’ use of their institutional dominance to defend the status quo, it was hard to see [...]
Changing of the guard
Monday, May 15, 2006 – 3:30 am
Piers Akerman of the Daily Telegraph has thrown the cat among the pigeons by reporting that "political minds with close ties to the Howard camp" are talking of an "elegant departure" by the Prime Minister at the end of the year. Akerman, who for various reasons is known for the quality of his Coalition sources, [...]
Service resumes
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 – 4:57 pm
After five weeks, 22 emails, five endless and massively expensive overseas phone calls, a threat of legal action delivered by international registered post and more foul-mouthed abuse than I have ever heaped upon anyone or anything in all my life, my London-based web host (who shall remain nameless for the time being) has finally corrected [...]
Cash for comment
Saturday, March 4, 2006 – 11:53 pm
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone", saith John 8:7. And since your correspondent has never once had the good grace to donate to any of the blogs he visits on a daily basis, he cannot in good conscience criticise his valued readers for their failure to have given the PayPal link [...]
Mackerras versus McGauran
Monday, February 6, 2006 – 10:54 pm
The earlier post on Senator Julian McGauran’s defection from the Nationals to the Liberals generated a productive discussion in comments, in sad contrast to subsequent efforts fingering the entrails of the WA Labor Party. Professor Malcolm Mackerras, recent recipient of the Office of the Order of Australia for services to psephology, offers an erudite contribution [...]
You doity rat
Monday, January 23, 2006 – 11:25 pm
Victorian Senator Julian McGauran’s defection from the Nationals to the Liberals has attracted widespread criticism on talk radio and blogs (here and here and here and here), much of which has echoed Nationals leader Mark Vaile’s critique – that "the honourable thing for Julian to do would be to step down from that position and [...]
Just say when
Monday, January 9, 2006 – 7:27 pm
Saturday’s Mercury informs us that speculation about an early Tasmanian election has not gone away, with little change in the dates under discussion – late February or early March still being the popular tip. Crikey is reading significance into an appearance by Paul Lennon and wife Margaret in the Australian Women’s Weekly issue scheduled to [...]
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