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Anthony Albanese for Labor Leader
I watched the first of three televised “debates” between Anthony Albanese and Bill Shorten the other night. They will meet again in Melbourne tomorrow night and appear together on Q&A on Monday...
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Mr Abbott elected PM; Invents invisibility potion
There’s been a fair bit of comment today about Tony Abbott’s reluctance to appear in the media. Notable are Jonathan Green (who rightly derides the absurdity and immorality of the “hide the boats”...
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All local politics is global I
One of the interesting things, to me, about visiting Prague was talking to a number of local academics – at the Anglo-American University and the Institute of Industrial and Financial Management –...
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The Contradictions of Direct Action
One of the great illusions of political analysis in Australia is that the Coalition has a “cunning plan”, a unified and coherent agenda for governing the nation. This is manifested in both left and...
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All together for Albo!
I’ve always wondered if the claim, often made by rightwingers in the ALP, that whoever is their standard bearer is just *more electable* has just become one of those supposedly self-evident nostrums...
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Avoiding futility under the Abbott administration
John Quiggin argued at the Centre for Policy Development‘s Pushing Our Luck launch discussion at Avid Reader a couple of weeks ago that the best way to view the advent of the Abbott government was that...
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Australia needs an inquiry into Parliamentary expenses and transparency and...
If the calculations that Tony Abbott has claimed over $90 000 in questionable expenses while in Opposition are true (and I don’t make the claim that they are – but clearly someone has gone to the...
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Tim Dunlop on Tony Abbott’s Press Gallery Cheer Squad
In posing the question yesterday about why Tony Abbott’s expenses claims attracted so little scrutiny during the last term of Parliament, I might have added that the way they are being reported now is...
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Brisbanites! Announcing The Ubiquitous Hat Pop Up Book and Garage Sale! This...
As Brian mentioned the other day, I’m moving and we’re hosting a Pop Up Book and Garage Sale on Saturday at our Farm House. There’s oodles of quality books – academic and otherwise, with politics and...
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Plus Ultra!
I know Brian said that we’d posted our last, but I couldn’t let the very kind words on the thread announcing our closure to go un-remarked. I also thought it somewhat incumbent on me as founder of the...
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