An air that kills
The turmoil in the Liberal Party over carbon emissions is symptomatic of the debate within the community. Liberals can take no comfort from this because Australia needs more than just the passive space of a stage on which to act out this drama.
The 2012 deadline is sound, not only because it marks the expiry of the Kyoto Protocol, but because it will take that amount of time
Give John Roskam a break
John Roskam has scoffed a fistful of the Tony Abbott Angry Pills and complains that Kevin Rudd isn't giving him a break.
The main thing to say about Rudd is that he hasn't leapt out of the blocks like a sprinter, but has started with a canter like marathon runners do. With all those inquiries and a general refusal to throw babies out with the Coalition bathwater, this
Waking the dead
Many tears have been shed, mostly of the crocodile variety, for a political constituency that has been determinedly abandoned: liberals.
First, wily old careerists like Philip Ruddock and Robert Hill abandoned liberals and liberalism. Then, the Democrats sold out for a mess of, um, whatever it was Meg Lees got in exchange for the GST, or whatever it was Natasha Stott Despoja
No guts or glory at the coffee club
This article shows that reforming the Liberal Party requires strength, determination and vision that is currently lacking in that organisation. The NSW Libs now have no chance of holding their ground in the 2009/10 Federal election, let alone advancing their position. They will not win the 2011 State election either. I would have liked to see not only Iemma
Or turn into a mishmash
Michelle Grattan should know better than to publish stuff like this. After almost four decades in Canberra you have no excuse for getting caught up in the flaky hype and bullshit from people with no sense of history nor any principle to carry them forward.
DAY-TO-DAY perceptions of politics can change with great speed, indeed sometimes faster than the reality, perhaps
Not warming to Malcolm
There are three reasons why the Liberals are wimping out on measures to deal with carbon emissions. First, they were never really convinced and they just can't fake it any more. Second, mining companies and other polluters might not turn away from them in their hour of financial need. Third, it's one in the eye for Malcolm Turnbull.
The Liberals were only pretending to
O'Farrell steps up
If someone leading the NSW State Parliamentary Liberal Party really wants to be Premier, the first victory they must win is not in the party room, but over the Liberal Party organisation.
John Carrick was General Secretary of the NSW Division of the Liberal Party, the equivalent of today's State Director, from 1948 to 1971. As a campaigner he was a one-trick pony, hammering
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