As the Bradfield preselection hots up, prize candidate Tom Switzer must be getting a little nervous about one thing: will anyone ask him about the war?
Conservatism
Guy Rundle: Don’t mention the war around Switzer
Conservative heroines: must be pretty and enrage liberals
Clare Werbeloff is Australian for Sarah Palin … well almost.
A Rudd by any other name
A splattering of machine parts, oil, flesh and blood rips apart in front of the Sydney Opera House. The words Portrait of an Exploding Terrorist are printed beneath the image. This is art as protest, oils and canvas as activism. And it was painted by the nephew of the man most expect to become Australia’s 26th Prime Minister.
Sparrow: well-rehearsed theatre with quibbles
The best bit came when they quibbled about representativeness.
Now, if you’d been filming a United Colors of Benetton commercial in the Great Hall that evening – a venue entirely filled with hand-selected political apparatchiks and fossilized specimens excavated from the Canberra press gallery – you’d scarcely begin by announcing: “I think this place needs a […]
Janet, conservatism has killed this government
Janet Albrechtsen is young, bright – and provides the perfect demonstration of exactly how John Howard has got himself into his poll pickle. John Howard is in the state he is in because he has favoured conservatism over liberalism.
