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Democrats
Political snippets: How the papers deal with Newspoll figures they don’t like
The Oz and Fairfax mangle the polls for Labor and Liberals, while somewhere on the internets, the Australian Democrat corpse is attempting to rise from it’s grave.
Guy Rundle: Rundle08: The Dems’ need for catharsis? Oh God…
Never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to remove the as yet undigested remains of defeat from the sifted faeces of victory, writes Guy Rundle.
An attack on Mayne’s Democrats revisionism
Crikey didn’t kill the Democrats, writes Andrew Le Clercq. It was merely a loud eager-beaver Greek chorus thingy on the sidelines.
Stephen Mayne: How we killed the Democrats
Crikey wrote the obit for the Democrats before the last election. Stephen Mayne rakes over the coals of Crikey’s reportage on the demise of Don Chipp’s dream.
The Australian Democrats: the last of the honest bastards
The Australian Democrats have left the Senate chamber. Don’s Party is over, writes Nahum Ayliffe.
Whither the Democrats?
The inaugural meeting of the Australian Lobster Party…
We’re the party that ate itself: Democrat insiders tell
At thirty years of age, the Australian Democrats are terminally ill when they should be in their prime, write former staffers John Cherry and Vivienne Wynter.
Tips and rumours
Strong rumours coming out of Tassie talk about a local Liberal leadership spill – a complete top level cleanout apparently.
Caroline Overington had a self serving defensive piece about the Wentworth emails on-line at 9am this morning, at 9.28am it has vanished.
I can’t believe all the rubbish that has been peddled about the candidates in […]
