The great thing about Saturday’s result, no matter how far to the left one is of Rudd, is that the total dominance of Labor at both levels of government for a whiles to come, gives the opportunity to reshape the context of Australian politics, and the sort of values that are to be placed at the centre of life, writes Guy Rundle
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MacCormack: Is panic setting in for desperate Libs?
Two signs of desperation from the Liberals yesterday. Is panic finally setting in? asks David MacCormack.
The slippery world of polls, slops and worms
In the slippery world of political statistics, polls are a known quantity and in Australia have a generally good record of accuracy. But slops and worms are another story all together, write Irving Saulwick and Denis Muller.
Socialist pedigree of the other WorkChoices academic
Recently, academic John Buchanan was exposed as anything but politically impartial. Readers may be interested to find out that David Peetz, a Professor of Industrial Relations at Griffith University, and the other academic involved with the recent and highly questionable study on WorkChoices, is another socialist bitterly opposed to labour market reform.
Mungo: Liberal leadership a monstrous hybrid
So at last the line it is drawn, the curse it is cast… John Howard and Peter Costello are to be merged into a two-headed monster. Every Tasmanian expectant mother’s worst nightmare – a dicephalous teratoid.
Riding the “antipodean effect” to Edinburgh Fringe glory
And the winner of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival if.comedy award is… Brendon Burns! From Australia! Who?
