The old order fadeth. Sorta, anyway. The Prime Minister is top of the Crikey/Media Monitors chart for this week, the leader of the opposition is second – but John Howard is still hanging in at number three, writes Christian Kerr
Coalition mps
The Liberals get lucky as the counting continues
Eight seats remain on the Electoral Commission’s close seats list and although the parties regard the contest as over it’s amazing to see how lucky the Liberals have been, writes Christian Kerr.
Nuclear reactors vanish from local politics
According to an ALP list doing the rounds, one in four Coalition MPs are telling voters in their electorates that they’re opposed to nuclear power, which pretty much directly contradicts government policy to develop a nuclear industry in Australia.
Bahnisch: The return of aspirational nationalism
We haven’t heard anything about aspirational nationalism in this campaign. If you cast your mind back to August, it was John Howard’s new big philosophical idea. Boldly going where no nonsensical phrase had gone before – back to the future, and all that. writes Mark Bahnisch.
Who cares about privacy or ethics when there’s an election to win?
Politicians normally run a mile when they hear the words “Child Support Agency”. In the face of persistent poor polling, however, the Liberal Party seems to be trying a new approach.
MPs: Don’t punt your super on your own success
House of Representatives MPs are placing bets on the election with Sportingbet, or so we are told in recent reporting. Specifically, they’re backing themselves to win their own seats.
