I’ve come to the firm conclusion that the “honeymoon is over” proclamation issued by the media en masse a few weeks ago with reference to the Rudd government and Kevin Rudd himself means nothing more than the media decided to report everything the government did with some spin about “symbolism over substance” and “lacking a narrative” - most recently exemplified in another complete waste of newsprint from Glenn Milne whose Sunday column this week lacks anythin Read more »
It was recently suggested in comments here by Paulus that progressives should be welcoming Brendan Nelson’s leadership: Read more »
Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser has handed down his first budget, with Premier Anna Bligh branding it as her “government’s first budget” - an obvious counter to perceptions that Peter Beattie had dropped the ball on services and infrastructure. Three interesting themes to emerge from the new spending commitments are housing affordability, public transport and assistance for pensioners and people with disability. Read more »
Glenn Milne must be delighted that Martin Ferguson isn’t a happy camper, as he’s finally able to write a column based on rumblings within Labor rather than play his traditional role as a conduit for Liberal leadership dissent (or smear people as “artists” and therefore “pervs”) Read more »
The Shanahan has spoken. He might claim that Rudd lacks a narrative, but he’s sure got one. Read more »
Kevin Rudd was wearing a green tie, and Brendan Nelson was emoting about a business supposedly destroyed by a budget decision on solar panels. Peter Garrett wants voluntary energy efficiency stickers on tv sets. Christine Milne throws her hands up in despair at all this, and quite understandably so. Read more »
At gatewatching, Jason Wilson discusses the revived blogospherical debate about the absurd narratives based on misinterpretations of polling from those punditocrats whom Possum has been pleased to dub the Opionatas. Wilson writes: Read more »
Peter Brent at Mumble is reporting that Newspoll shows Brendan Nelson’s preferred PM number moving up from 12 to a stellar 17 (where it’s been in Morgan incidentally). Rudd’s down 4 points to 66. The 2PP shows no change from last time - 57 to 43 in favour of the ALP.
Numbers here. Read more »
There’s an interesting paradox about Kevin Rudd’s personality which has come to light in recent days, in the wake of the furore over a series of leaks early last week. It’s this - that like a number of other PMs in the past, Kevin Rudd has a temper and can be a bastard to work for. What’s surprising about that? It certainly would be no surprise to a lot of people who worked in the Queensland public sector in the Goss era. Is it surprising more generally? Read more »
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