There is no one great mass in politics. There are competing interest groups individuals identify themselves with – but individuals are the building blocks. This campaign, John Howard has forgotten that. If he loses, this will be why, writes Christian Kerr.
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Bastardry or brilliance? How about a bit of both? It’s an almighty piece of petulance from Dollar Sweetie, but it’s not without its logic. Costello has given the ALP another scalp, but has also denied them a target, writes Christian Kerr.
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By our measure Labor has clearly won the campaign with yesterday being no exception, writes Richard Farmer.
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They've been analysing the campaign since Day One, just what are Crikey's commentariat predicting will happen tomorrow?
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Peter Costello has done the right thing by himself and his family in pulling the plug on politics and deserves to have a highly successful career in the commercial world, writes Stephen Mayne.
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When Kevin Rudd announces to the plenary session of the UN climate change conference in Bali in two weeks' time that Australia will ratify the Kyoto Protocol he will receive an ovation like no other in his life, writes Clive Hamilton.
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Well, well, well, doesn't time fly? Here we are, only one sleep away from what Mark Vaile says is the most important moment in the whole history of the Australian nation . . . and that includes WWII and everything! Where, oh where, have the last six weeks gone? If for any reason you have had trouble sorting the beautiful and the bizarre from the banal over the last 40 days (and hasn't there been a bit of that?), then Crikey's Election Tracker Timeline might be able to help.
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The Libs face years before anything can be regained and in terms of new leaders, they face only bad and worse choices, writes Guy Rundle.
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Chapter 07, verses 23-28: Though I speak with the tongues of Australian working families and of fair-minded citizens everywhere, and have not votes, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal, etc.
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Kevin Rudd’s respect for his predecessor was manifest in a poised victory speech. It was all very Tony Blair. Déjà vu recalls similar tributes to Margaret Thatcher’s role in Britain when Blair won office, writes Ian Smith.
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On 24 November, the Australian people did what many conservatives, including myself, believed they would never bring themselves to do - dismiss a government which on any economic indicator was not only the nation’s but probably the world’s most successful government, writes David Flint.
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The Liberal Party is in desperate need of leadership, writes Christian Kerr.
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Australians are not likely to dispatch one of the best prime ministers in the history of the Commonwealth, merely because of Rudd's vacuous puff and spin, writes David Flint.
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A word of advice to the outgoing Treasurer - don't read the papers today. They're not terribly charitable to you or your fallen leader.
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If we look at a rolling four poll average of Newspoll, ACNielsen, Morgan and Galaxy – the story of the campaign is one of the absence of movement, as it has been for months, writes Possum Comitatus.
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The papers have their say ...
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With the polls static, people are resorting to the Latham-Albrechtsen thesis (a term hitherto reserved for questions of Prince Harry's biological parenthood) – the idea that people are using them to register a soft protest pseudo-vote, and everything's gone meta, writes Guy Rundle.
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Rudd = Australia's answer to Pelosi ... Queensland lends a helping hand ... Let's talk Iraq now ... Same for the US please ... A great man gone.
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It’s odd that in an era of personality-driven politics that we elect leaders with so little ... personality. Charisma has given way to authority and competence in the leadership stakes, writes Wayne Errington.
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Ratifying Kyoto and withdrawing troops from Iraq dominated the international discussion over our new Prime Minister, with a nod to Scores, of course...
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