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Need to know

October 18, 2020 - 15:38 -- Admin

I don't need to know about that bit.  - Gladys Berejiklian to Daryl Maguire

An earlier version of this post focused on the fact that the budget was announced last week, and right now there are compromises and horse-trading underway to get it passed into law, and that any member of the federal parliamentary press gallery worth their salt should be onto this and what it might mean for our country in these uncertain times.

The three-body problem

September 8, 2020 - 19:56 -- Admin

When one major party is in government in Australia, the most significant figure of the opposing party is usually the opposition leader. If that's not the case, the most significant figure in the opposing party (and hence the biggest threat to the prime minister and the incumbent government) is almost always another member of the opposition in federal parliament: there's a challenge, the most powerful member of the opposition becomes opposition leader and takes on the prime minister.

Dead fish

January 13, 2019 - 19:38 -- Admin

Regular readers can take comfort in my poor record of prognostication, but for the longest time I had assumed that the NSW election would have something for everyone: a nail-biter, with the Libs losing a few marginals, the Nats losing one or two seats to the Greens and/or ShooFiFa, but basically the government would be returned for its inevitable final term (because the tensions between Liberal moderates and conservatives, now relatively mild, will only intensify as the spoils of office contr

Flinching at the future

April 2, 2018 - 22:25 -- Admin

I look to the future it makes me cryBut it seems too real to tell you whyFreed from the centuryWith nothing but memory, memoryAnd I just hope that you can forgive usBut everything must goAnd if you need an explanationThen everything must go- Manic Street Preachers Everything must go

What conservative triumph looks like

February 16, 2018 - 20:21 -- Admin

Conservatives within the Coalition should be enjoying their moment of triumph. They have negated a supposedly progressive Prime Minister and tethered him to the unpopular and disastrous policies of his conservative predecessor. They have cast off all but two of those pesky state governments, with their namby-pamby health and education and human services, and have command of the high ground of the federal government.

Distressed assets, part 2

July 10, 2017 - 08:02 -- Admin

Following on from yesterday on Bernardi's political bottom-feeding:What becomes of the broken-heartedBernardi has some capacity to make inroads into the Coalition, particularly the Liberal Party, but only after the Turnbull government has gone. Nobody, not even George Christensen, wants to do to the extant government what Jack Beasley or Vince Gair did to Labor back in the day.

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