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Is the tide turning for Tony Abbott?
It’s a truism in politics that while one opinion poll might evoke an interesting point, it’s the trend in poll findings that reveals much more. The same could be said for opinion pieces written by...
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Belling the Abbott cat
To bell the cat: To undertake a dangerous action in the service of a group. So that this does not become a pissing competition and miss the point altogether, this post is an attempt to capture all of...
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Glasshouses, stones and the problem with player journos
Sometimes I feel like the political equivalent of Methuselah. I really shouldn’t, because I can only remember back to the latter days of the Hawke Government. There are plenty of others around who can...
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#Kevenge2: It’s not on until it’s on
That’s the problem with leadership challenges: they’re not on until they’re on. The twice-spurned-but-hopes-to-be-vindicated-Prime Minister-in-waiting, Kevin Rudd, won’t declare his hand until he has...
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Patsys, players and the future of Australia’s political media
Here’s my latest post for the AusVotes 2013 federal election blog… The most significant thing that emerged from the mea culpas and post mortems that littered the coup-that-wasn’t battlefield was the...
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Iraq: troops stay, media kept out
Obama’s doing it. So’s Abbott. Repackaging their PR as “news” to avoid media scrutiny. Weekly column for The Hoopla.Filed under: Politics Tagged: democracy, Iraq, Laurie Oakes, media, scrutiny, The...
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Political leaks leave voters in the dark
The pact of secrecy that allows politicians to use journalists for political means, and rewards those journalists for being little more than a cipher, does not strengthen democracy - as Laurie Oakes...
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