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20/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 1
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Climate change does for Liberals what terrorism does for Labor – which is why a focus on global warming in the last days of the campaign is bad news for John Howard, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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9/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 3
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The breakdown of democracy in Pakistan has led most normal people to question Western support for General Musharraf. The Australian’s Greg Sheridan is worried, too, but for quite different reasons. He thinks that Musharraf might be insufficiently dictatorial, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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2/11/2007 12:00:00 AM 1
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It’s one of the bizarre ironies of this campaign: even as the issues they own become more and more mainstream, Bob Brown’s mob seems to be becoming more marginal, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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31/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 1
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The Age today describes John Howard and Peter Costello as “under pressure to distance themselves from an evangelical church leader who has spoken at a meeting of the far right-wing League of Rights.” That would be Mr Danny Nalliah. Jeff Sparrow reports.
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30/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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Costello will today debate Wayne Swan at the National Press Club, presumably before the usual crew of sanctimonious journalists. If Channel 9 had any sense, they’d add a couple of five year olds to the panel, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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29/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 1
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In her new book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein suggests that neo-liberalism today necessarily attaches itself to catastrophe. There's a lesson there for what's going on in the NT at the moment, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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23/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 2
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Here’s three other examples, more-or-less at random, of issues on which the people and their representatives move on entirely different tracks, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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22/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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18/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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The Australian soldier recently wounded in Iraq apparently belonged to the contingent that the ALP has promised to bring home. In a sane universe, this would sharply demonstrate the difference between Labor and Liberal policy on Iraq, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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17/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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It’s a time-honoured Tory theme, trotted out in every election since the 1890s. The Labor Party seems moderate and respectable – but, actually, it’s a Trojan horse through which Fabian socialism, flouridisation and the black helicopters of the United Nations will emerge into the public arena.
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15/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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For too long, Howard’s been pandering to a disreputable posse of intellectual thugs. Howard can’t win unless he breaks with these people. Yet they’re his oldest and most loyal allies. Quel dilemma, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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5/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 1
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As the polls have gone from bad to worse for the Government, Dennis Shanahan's role as the Comical Ali of Australian political journalism has become increasingly untenable, writes David MacCormack.
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3/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 2
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When it comes to American military adventures, John Howard is the Macbeth of Australian politics, but what about Kevin Rudd?
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2/10/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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You might have noticed the people charged with killing 18-year-old Sudanese migrant Liep Gony bear exotic names like "David" and "Dylan". Yet Kevin Andrews expresses no outrage about the violence of white culture – no, it’s the murdered Sudanese kid who refuses to accept the "Australian way of life", writes Jeff Sparrow.
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24/09/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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As The Age reported yesterday, the "union thugs" gracing our televisions are actually real life criminals, hired by the Business Coalition for Workplace Reform. Why should we be surprised? writes Jeff Sparrow.
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21/09/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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There’s something weird happening when John Howard accuses Kevin Rudd of holding a "pseudo-American, pseudo-ersatz" campaign launch – and it’s not because of the bizarre tautology "pseudo-ersatz", writes Jeff Sparrow.
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18/09/2007 12:00:00 AM 0
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Julia Gillard rightly draws attention to the government’s extraordinary expenditure of taxpayer’s money on advertising campaigns. This is, after all, a regime that, since 1996, has spent $1.42 billion of our money hymning its own virtues. The results from these campaigns are, however, a quite different question.
