Blair


What Rudd was doing in Blair

Last night’s TV grabs had Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard visiting the Ipswich hospital in the heart of Blair. Blair, first won by Liberal MP Cameron Thompson running against Pauline Hanson in 1998, is a very different seat after the redistribution, writes Mark Bahnisch.

Howard’s battlers? The real story could be the Rudd wets

There’s been a lot of commentary on how Howard can win back the “Howard battlers” who’ve deserted him for Rudd. But there’s been very little on how he can stop the Ruddslide rolling down the leafy avenues of blue ribbon seats such as Ryan in Brisbane.