Crikey media wrap: A ministerial reshuffle yesterday resulted in promotions for the architects of Julia Gillard’s prime ministerial coup, a demotion for a Kevin Rudd supporter and a record number of female ministers in Australian politics.
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Another Beazley jnr set to step up to the political plate?
The name Beazley could once again grace the green leather of an Australian parliament with Kim Beazley’s daughter Hannah being vigorously bandied about ahead of WA Labor’s 2013 preselection round.
Crikey Says: A poke in the eye to both of you
The tensions between Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd are threatening to escalate into real damage to the government.
Newspoll: Gillard consolidates her lead
The latest Newspoll has the Coalition two-party lead at 54-46, down from an aberrant 57-43 a fortnight ago. The Coalition is down four points on the primary vote to 44%, reports William Bowe.
Crikey Says: Australian political parties are dying, and fast
Australian political parties are cossetted by compulsory voting, public funding and exemptions in areas such as privacy. But despite those protections, they are dying, and quickly.
Let the ALP conference begin
Crikey media wrap: The ALP party has rolled into town for the first day of the Labor national conference in Sydney. With gay marriage, uranium and asylum seeker policy all up for grabs, expect it to be a raucous weekend.
Uranium sales, arms control fails
NAJ Taylor discusses uranium exports in the context of nonproliferation and disarmament, after Labor yesterday announced its proposal to sell uranium to India.
Nielsen: strong improvement for Gillard, modest for Labor
The latest Nielsen poll has Julia Gillard’s personal ratings up six points on approval and down five points on disapproval but Labor’s primary vote — 32 percent — is still dreadful, reports William Bowe.
Swan croaks his way to success, but how long until Labor ruins it?
Labor is happier fighting on IR and Tony Abbott has come off the boil. But how long until Labor stuffs it up again?
$80k pay day for Labor as CFMEU rejoins WA fold
The West Australian branch of the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is poised to re-affiliate with the Labor Party in that state, injecting up to $80,000 a year into ALP coffers and burying once and for all a bitter 2007 spat with foreign minister Kevin Rudd.
Lannan: ALP reform means shifting power from factional hacks
Real reform of the ALP must focus on giving people good reasons to join and stay in the ALP, writes John Lannan, a candidate for the federal presidency of the ALP.
Rundle: carbon tax a monument to Labor, and testimony to a burial
The carbon tax will be Labor’s historical triumph; if a post-Labor Senate can lock it in, then it will be, for the Gillard government, a monument –- and like all monuments, testimony to a burial.
Newspoll: 57-43 to Coalition
The latest Newspoll has Labor recovering three points from their record low primary vote last time, but continuing to languish on 29%, reports William Bowe.
Labor’s core values? Take your pick
In her rendition of Labor values, the Prime Minister left out any sense of how community -is meant to cohere or function in the face of the hurry and instability of post modern post industrial globalisation, writes David Ritter.
News Ltd’s indelible influence on the Labor brand
For years News Limited media have published unremittingly negative attacks on the Gilllard government. They have had a massive influence in tarnishing the party’s brand, writes Ad Astra.
Newspoll: the Malaysia Solution fallout
Newspoll has the Coalition’s lead out from 57-43 to 59-41, with the Coalition up three to 50% and Labor steady on 27%. Voters have lambasted the government over its handling of asylum seekers, writes William Bowe.
Political snippets: Chatting about leadership
I’m quite sure that the journalists who wrote the leadership stories that dominate this morning’s papers actually did speak to Labor Party members.
Crikey Says: This is real, people
The problem is there for the prime minister, a problem that wasn’t there before Wednesday afternoon, and it’s one that won’t go away any time soon.
Time for Gillard to put away funny hats, fluoro vests
What do you do when your tactics are completely failing and defeat is looming? Some people might decide to try something different but not the Australian Labor Party.
Newspoll: the Baillieu government’s honeymoon bounce
Labor’s primary vote of 28 percent in Victoria offers the party new cause for woe: they have now had results in the twenties federally and in all five states covered by Newspoll, writes William Bowe.
Rundle's ruminations: Labor has neither the brains nor strength to fix its problems
Labor’s leaders would have to be political geniuses to manoeuvre themselves out of the current fix — and they ain’t no geniuses.
Galaxy: apocalyptic results for Labor in QLD
The latest Galaxy federal poll of Queenslanders sees a two-party preferred of 63-37 to the Coalition. The swing of 8% from the 2010 election would leave Kevin Rudd as Labor’s only QLD representative, writes William Bowe.
Newspoll: disaffection for both parties
Newspoll has the Coalition lead up from 56-44 to 57-43, from primary votes of 27% for Labor (down two), 47% for the Coalition (steady) and a solid 14% for the Greens (up two), reports William Bowe.
The Power Index Power Shots: Kroger joins call to ban political donations … it’s prawns, Moet and satire for yachties …
They call him ‘the Pope’, Don Farrell is number six on our list of Political Fixers. Also Michael Yabsley gets the backing of Liberal Party grandee Michael Kroger over banning political donations, it’s prawns, Moet and satire for the yachties at Hamilton and Phil Green’s chance to give back.
