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Headless Chooks: If It Weren’t So Serious…
THERE’S a new TVC out today from the Liberal Party, and it’s a beauty; good for a laugh, but stripped of the mirth it’s actually a pretty sad reflection on the Labor Party and what passes for government in its … Continue reading
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Crossroads: Many Careers On The Line As Craig Thomson Charged With Fraud
NEWS that Dobell MP Craig Thomson has been charged with fraud — over the alleged misuse of credit cards whilst the head of the Health Services Union — brings to a head a saga that has dragged on for years; … Continue reading
BREAKING: Labor MP Craig Thomson Arrested
This is a very quick lunchtime post, and primarily with a link to the news report carried in the Fairfax press; but after years of investigation, Dobell MP Craig Thomson has been arrested on fraud charges emanating from his days … Continue reading
First Poll Since Misogynistic Storm Broke: No Bounce For Labor
The first opinion poll — an Essential Research survey — to be published since a Julia Gillard speech to Parliament last week heralded the formalisation of hostilities in the so-called “gender war” has found absolutely no consequent benefit to the … Continue reading
Opinion Polls And Parliamentary Sittings: Dead Cat Bounces And Orangutans
One opinion poll favourable to Labor last week — even as others showed the ALP position deteriorating — and the political chatterati are talking of miracle revivals; but Parliament resumes this week, and as it does Julia Gillard is likely … Continue reading
Labor’s Mixed Bag: A Slight Rise, A Slight Fall, And A Plot Growing Thicker To Boot
Tonight’s opinion polls are out, and the picture is less than clear; Newspoll finds the ALP gaining, whilst Essential shows the opposite. And behind the scenes, a deal may have been hammered out to toss Julia Gillard overboard irrespective. After … Continue reading
67-33 To LNP: Queensland Galaxy Poll Another Portent Of Labor’s Looming Extermination
Just when things couldn’t get much worse for the Labor Party, a new Galaxy poll in Queensland has that state’s LNP government leading the ALP by a 67-33 margin after preferences. This isn’t just any state poll. This is a … Continue reading
“Please Leave Me Alone:” Craig Thomson Just Doesn’t Get It
Hot on the heels of his reprehensible speech to Parliament this week — which may bring more self-inflicted trouble than anything — Craig Thomson played the misery card again today, begging the opposition and media commentators to leave him alone. … Continue reading
Stalemate: Thomson Saga Rolls On…But To Where?
It’s like being in the eye of a storm; Craig Thomson fired his bullets in Parliament on Monday, and despite a lot of rough, tough talk — and the requisite Question Time ruckus — there doesn’t seem to be a … Continue reading
Self-Indulgent, Self-Destructive Rant: Thomson Speech An Abject Waste Of Time
Somewhat anti-climactically, today’s speech by Craig Thomson to federal Parliament changed nothing, resolved nothing, and certainly failed to clear his name. Yet there will be consequences; for this speech could be construed as one of the greatest abuses of Parliament … Continue reading
