Karl Bitar seems to have made it his life’s work to symbolise the decline of the Australian Labor Party. Spinning for Crown says more about the party than the man.
Federal labor party
Right fractures, leaving Labor secretary post ‘wide open’
The Labor Party has fractured further over the appointment of a new national secretary, with the Right faction split down the middle for the first time in years ahead of its caucus meeting on Thursday night.
Behind the one sided mirror of focus groups
As a long term practitioner and teacher of research methods, Eva Cox wants to set the record straight by pointing out the apparent gross misuse of a very useful tool — focus groups.
Maloney’s Marginalia: Marvellous Melbourne
For 106 years, the seat of Melbourne has been Labor. But the old working class suburbs are now desirable inner-urban locales, the progressive middle-class is worried about climate change and the rank-and-file have withered on the vine, writes Shane Maloney.
Kohler: rich payouts and poor politics
Australians are being very poorly served by their politicians at present. They are consumed by combat and we are being spiflicated by spin, writes Alan Kohler.
