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Tweet Declare your enemy a kook, a klutz or a slimeball, proclaim you’ve already won and ostentatiously prepare for office — this is the tried and tested method Abbott and his acolytes are following, says Bob Ellis. Karl Rove receiving the...
Tweet Never before have we had a press so controlled, says Bob Ellis, with all the anti-Abbott or anti-Coalition news being deliberately minimised. (Image courtesy Tony Yegles / Australians for Honest Politics.) CLIVE PALMER started a new party...
Tweet Clive Palmer’s resurrection of the UAP today has tipped the election into Labor’s favour, says Bob Ellis. HEADLINES WE WON’T SEE this weekend include Palmer V Abbott: Coalition In Civil War; or Queensland In Chaos:...
Tweet Tony Abbott has spent most of this year hiding from scrutiny and waiting for what the media say is a certain election win later this year — but have the wheels started to fall off his campaign in the last few weeks? Matthew N. Donovan...
Tweet The Newman LNP government has spent record political capital in record time. Matthew N. Donovan comments on a slippery slide after a record victory. Qld Premier Campbell Newman and the alleged power behind the throne: LNP frontbenchers...
Tweet Gee considers several recent major communication breakdowns in Australian politics. read more »
Tweet The recent acquittal of Dr Jayant Patel heralds the reassuring hope that the justice system in Australia is still independent, writes Dr Leong Ng. “Medicine is, of all the Arts, the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those...
Tweet The Australian political spin machine has gone into overdrive with the announcement of the Federal election a few weeks ago, but what would normally be a battle of policy and party politics has been turned into a mere popularity contest...
Tweet With Newspoll showing Labor back on level ground, Bob Ellis considers why it all went so wrong for the Liberal Party so quickly. NEWSPOLL SHOWS Labor’s base vote back where it was, 38, when it won a negotiated victory in 2010. It is...
Tweet With the anticipated birth of a royal heir in 2013, the the Queensland Government is going into forelock tugging hyper-drive especially Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie, says Dr Glenn Davies. RECENTLY, Bob Ellis wrote in Independent Australia...
