Despite Peter Costello’s claims that the ABC has a distinct left-wing bias, new research shows the ABC is more likely to favour the Coalition, while The Age leans to Labor.
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Will the messy NSW govt cost Rudd seats?
With no NSW election until 2011, the Rudd government is concerned that voters angry at the troubled NSW state government will take out their frustration against Labor at the next federal election.
There’s a chance Labor could win Kooyong
There are whispers inside the Victorian Liberal Party that Kooyong may not be the electoral certainty it once was, writes Brian Costar.
Labor and Liberals on essentially the same side
It barely matters whether Malcolm ‘gun for hire’ Turnbull chose membership of the ALP or the Liberals, because they are barely distinguishable these days, writes Doug Conway.
Political snippets: Labor cash cows under investigation
Labor cash cows under investigation, another Murdoch paper shuts down and what’s happening with school rankings?
Victorian newspoll: more of the same
The new Victorian state Newspoll via The Oz had the primaries running 43 / 37 to Labor. Possum Commitus crunches the numbers.
Frozen out, Newnham prepares to meet his maker
Victorian Premier John Brumby has increased pressure on ALP State Secretary Stephen Newnham to resign immediately by banning him from preparations for the 2010 State Election campaign.
NT washup: desperately seeking stability
“Peace for our time” read the paper held aloft in the Darwin Parliament last Friday, when MP Gerry Wood announced that he would keep the embattled ALP in power. But, peace is a trouble concept.
Guy Rundle: McClelland’s new terror bill is soft totalitarian nonsense
Robert McClelland’s new terror bill is based on the notion that people are simply psychological crash-test dummies, rather than robust and resilient citizens in a free society.
Dum dum de dum: Labor marries the religious right
Hundreds of membrs of the religious right will gather in Canberra this week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Howard government’s ban on same-sex marriage, writes Former West Australian Democrats Senator Brian Greig.
Accusations fly over racist pamphlet drop
A furore has erupted in the Victorian Parliament, with a federal MP accused of using a stoush over public housing to incite a racist campaign against Africans.
Whitlam’s Grandchildren: what the Class of 2007 can tell us about the ALP
Comparing ALP MPs who made their Parliamentary debut after the party’s win in 2007 with those who sat for the first time in 1983 can provide some interesting insights into the evolution of Australia’s longest-living political party, writes Trevor Cook.
Liberals and Fielding block our right to know
Who purchased access to senior Labor ministers at the ALP national conference? If the Senate would pass pending legislation, we might just find out.
Tasmanian state Labor forfeit in by-election first
Is forfeiting an election less embarassing than a defeat? Obviously the Tasmanian Labor party thought so, since they didn’t contest their own seat at the weekend’s by-election.
Is this the end of the $10,000 plate?
Anna Bligh’s attempts to curtailing the influence of lobbyists and political donations will have some dramatic repercussions for all politicians. Will business fundraiser dinners be a thing of the past?
The gay love affair with Kevin is over
The gay honeymoon with Labor is now officially over, with the ALP simply applying a thin coat of pinkwash over existing failed policy, writes Doug Pollard.
Bartlett: ALP conference not what it used to be
The biggest surprise at the ALP’s national conference would be if there were any surprises at all, says Andrew Bartlett.
Rudd and the ALP: lovers not soul mates
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s relationship with the ALP is a marriage of convenience, writes Annabel Crabb.
Labor’s big show not just for true believers
ALP conferences aren’t as wild as the days of Gough Whitlam, but they are appealing to a different crowd now. “Labor might have got boring, but it has got better”, writes Christian Kerr.
Political snippets: The national poker machine party, organic food no healthier
The ALP and their pokie loving ways, and is organic food no healthier?
Kevin 09: competent, unglamorous and focussed on outcomes
Kevin Rudd today used his opening address to the ALP National Conference to paint his Government as one firmly in the Labor tradition: all social safety nets and nation-building. By his standards it was “soaring rhetoric”.
Faction fighting at ALP convention
The national ALP conference may no longer be that relevant, but the Left faction is still bound to heat things up on issues like gay marriage and 457 visas.
$19m the cost of a quiet ALP conference
That was the price of buying off the union campaign to impose protectionism on Government procurement.
Labor’s fringe haunts the PM at National Conference
With formal proceedings at the ALP National Conference doomed to irrelevancy, the fringe program has assumed centre stage. And it’s where all the fun is.
