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Status Quo: Newspoll, Essential Research Findings Static
Two new polls have hit the streets in the past 24 hours, with little of note to report on; Newspoll in The Australian finds the Coalition ahead after preferences on an unchanged 54-46 basis this fortnight, whilst Essential’s 56-44 Coalition … Continue reading
Undemocratic Thuggery: Labor Commits To Ignore Election Outcome
With the Government’s hated carbon tax now less than three weeks from taking effect, the ALP has promised to do everything it can in opposition — after the next election — to prevent the repeal of the tax. Such a … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Coalition, Elections, Greens, Greg Combet, Julia Gillard, Liberal Party, politics, Senate, Tony Abbott
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The Mutterers Mutter: Labor Party Leadership Brawl, Round 2
“People don’t like her; they don’t trust her; they don’t believe anything she has to say; and they certainly don’t support her.” These were my comments on Julia Gillard, after the first ALP leadership brawl in February. It now seems the … 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
Precision-Guided Rhetorical Bullets: Tony Abbott’s Budget Reply
Opposition leader Tony Abbott, in his budget reply speech tonight, poleaxed Julia Gillard and the ALP, landing direct and scorching hits on every major weakness afflicting the present government. Looking and sounding like a Prime Minister, Abbott outlined a vision … Continue reading
A Peter Costello Comeback? As Sure As Night Follows Day, It Won’t Happen
I’ve read with some amusement reports in today’s press speculating that a political comeback by former treasurer Peter Costello may be on the cards; wishful thinking for some, perhaps, but it ain’t going to happen. ABC TV reports that Mr … Continue reading
Budget, Schmudget: Sleight-Of-Hand Swan Delivers Duplicitous Gillard Deception
”The deficit years of the global recession are over,” Treasurer Wayne Swan declared, in tonight delivering the federal budget for 2012-13. ”The surplus years are here.” And if you believe that, then at about 6am tomorrow you’ll be looking for … Continue reading
Swan vs Palmer? My Money’s On The Magnate
As an aside to the shenanigans in Canberra this week, billionaire mining magnate Clive Palmer has said he wishes to stand against Treasurer Wayne Swan in his electorate, presumably to get even; Swan says Palmer has never been closer to … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Clive Palmer, Elections, Intellectual Pygmy, Liberal Party, Lilley, LNP, politics, Wayne Swan
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Triple Whammy: New Polls Shatter Gillard Bedrock
Three new opinion polls in the past 48 hours — from Galaxy, Essential Research and Newspoll — have all recorded hefty movements away from Julia Gillard and Labor. Surely, given the poll-driven nature of the ALP, Gillard’s demise is now … Continue reading
Sham “Standards”: Panicked Gillard Dumps On Thomson And Slipper
In a frenzied fit of panic, Julia Gillard today forced Craig Thomson’s departure from the ALP, and decreed Peter Slipper to be sidelined indefinitely. She possesses neither authority nor credibility, and her role as PM — and perhaps that of … Continue reading
