In recent days I have secured some good media coverage for my research comparing the first speeches of the 2007 and 1983 ALP MP intakes; which I luridly titled “Whitlam’s Grandchildren: What the Class of 2007 tells us about the ALP”. Annabel Crabb wrote it up in the SMH Thursday (In Gough we Trust) which prompted [...]
READ MOREAugust, 2009
Whitlam’s Grandchildren: What the Class of 2007 can tell us about the ALP
Changes of government typically result in a flood of new members into the House of Representatives, especially, of course, on the winner’s side. After winning the election in 2007, 32 ALP members sat, and spoke, in the House of Representatives, for the first time, 39 per cent of Labor’s representation in the lower house. The [...]
READ MOREA Courier-mail stew: Shakespeare, the Bible and Kyle Sandilands
The Courier-mail’s Dianne Butler begins her piece today on Sandilands’ early exit from Australian idol with this extraordianry concoction of misattributed and unattributed quotes: LIVE by the sword, die by the sword, as Hamlet used to say. On the other hand, truth is beauty, beauty truth and that’s all you need to know. The first [...]
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