Is Bob Ellis crazy, or will we, in March, look to him as some kind of incredible electoral prophet? I alone in all of Australia think Labor will hold government, in a perhaps hung parliament, in New South Wales on March 24. And I’ll tell you why. My prediction anyway, and it may change, is: 43.5 per cent to Labor, 49 per cent to the Coalition, 6.5 per cent to [...]
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I’ve just finished reading Confessions of a Faceless Man, AWU National Secretary Paul Howes’s insightful diary from the 2010 federal election campaign. Written entertainingly, Howes is keen to give his version with brutal honesty; he isn’t keen to shy away. He says that former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was “simply a populist, unwilling to tackle the hard issues,” describes the difficulties he, and members of the ALP Caucus had with [...]
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The Age features former Howard minister Peter Reith reviewing John Howard’s new autobiography, Lazarus Rising. He clearly loves his ex-PM and persistently stays on-side of Howard. He dissects much of book’s content, almost chapter-by-chapter, and does an excellent job of defending their record. Whether it’s the GST, his relationship with Peter Costello or his handling of the waterfront dispute, Iraq, WorkChoices or Tampa; you name it, Reith defends it. Perhaps [...]
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I quite liked an article in today’s Weekend Australian profiling the Burmese elections to take place tomorrow. In it Asia-Pacific editor Rowan Callick very succinctly describes why we should care about a democratic Burma: not because it is a strategic asset, or we need access to the Burmese economy, but just because, “Burma matters for its own sake, a beautiful and battered land of 50 million people who simply deserve [...]
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Tablet Magazine’s Allison Hoffman has profiled Jewish support for J Street’s candidates, Barack Obama and the Democrats in the wake of the “shellacking” dished out to them in the mid-term elections. While some of the results aren’t surprising at all, here are some of the main outcomes: Jewish support for the Democrats declined, but that it’s hardly surprising given the overall reduction in support. The impact of the ‘Soros revelations’ [...]
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In an excerpt from his upcoming book The Party Thieves published in the weekend’s Fairfax papers, Barry Cassidy explores the “ambush on the night of the long knives,” that is, the night of Julia Gillard’s successful putsch against then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The cut-out is a great read, and makes me very tempted to buy the whole book (thus increasing my 2010 election campaign-themed book collection to two after my [...]
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Here it is: Labor – 75 Coalition – 71 Independents – 3 Greens – 1 Should be an interesting night!
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Shopping centre tours, live TV crosses, billion dollar pledges and babies being kissed across Australia. This must be election season. The media might be calling it one of the more dull campaigns in recent memory, but it doesn’t mean it’s not worth dwelling over. More than half of all Australians are on Facebook and Twitter and all of them seem to be talking election 2010. It might be boring, but [...]
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Eighteen months ago not a single politico in Australia would have expected this: the Coalition is now six points up in the latest Nielson poll. You would now think that the whispers and rumours of the ALP benefitting from a Gillard-Rudd swap would intensify, and perhaps even occur. Will this make Rudd want to push back the election and serve a full term (as, incidentally, he promised he would), or [...]
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Iran acknowledges prisoners were beaten to death: Iran’s hard-line judiciary acknowledged for the first time Saturday that at least three prisoners detained after June’s disputed presidential election were beaten to death by their jailers, confirming a key claim by the country’s opposition movement. And the world was relieved that finally the truth came out…
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