Articles by John Chalmers

They’re not team players. Luckily for Novak he plays an individual sport.

So impressive how all the political commentators have realised that when Julia Gillard talks about not having the numbers in the Parliament to pass Andrew Wilkie’s pokies reforms, she means her own numbers, not the crossbench.

Teresa Gambaro’s moment in the sun was as brief as it was ripe,.

Nicola Roxon was off to a busy start to the year in her new role as Attorney General.

Last year it was close to a three-way tie at the top, with Tony Abbott wedged between the two prime ministers of 2010, at the end of the year doubtless still cursing that he hadn’t become the third prime minister of 2010. At the end of this year Abbott’s party has moved to a commanding […]

Not too many bouquets for the Prime Minister for the last big piece of political news of the year.

Sorry folks, no-one gets the chance to vote either for or against Mr Slipper ever again, but I’m sure he’s taken your comments seriously nevertheless…

The return to domestic issues after weeks of CHOGMs, APECs, G20s and assorted other acronyms brought Julia Gillard back to the field a little.

There’s nothing a Press Gallery hates more than relative political stability.

The passing of the carbon tax saw the Government and Greens battling each other once again to take all the credit.

Regarding the media’s coverage of Qantas, it all became about who said what to who and when .

The imminent CHOGM had the Premiers well up the list, particularly host Colin Barnett.

A Cabinet leak added to the Prime Minister’s woes, with much of the media taking it as a sign of imminent collapse.

Rudd got up to three-quarters of Gillard’s coverage in a week that was meant to be all about the carbon price.

The tax summit helped push Wayne Swan up to second, swapping places with the happy little vegemite down at the Foreign Office.

He’s baaaack. It’s looking decidedly like a three horse race, at least in volume of coverage terms, with the Prime Min…er, I mean Foreign Minister, getting three quarters of Julia Gillard’s coverage this week.

Extraordinarily, the focus has moved so completely to the asylum seeker issue that Greg Combet actually fell six places and Greg Hunt moved off the list altogether.

While most of the other supposed contenders for the top job drifted well down the list this week, one K Rudd stayed well in the top five.

Julia Gillard’s Annus Horribilis reached new lows.

The Craig Thomson issue continued to take up much of the political oxygen.

Craig Thomson was of course the PM’s most pressing immediate headache this week

State politics continued to take up a greater proportion of the political discussion and Tony Abbott was back to second after making a splash pretty much on his first day back.

Chris Bowen put his sternest no exceptions face on, as the complexities of the asylum seeker issue continue to mount up.

State politics finally got a look in this week after Federal issues dominating political coverage for several months.

Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were still on the campaign trail debating the carbon tax, but the media is finally starting to move on…