Indications are that the Liberal Party will elect former minister and deputy leader Peter Reith as its new federal president at tomorrow’s federal council meeting.
Federal liberals
The budget fact no one’s talking about: the GFC is still with us
Though Labor and Liberal loudly proclaim their differences, on the key economic issues, they’re (pardon the pun) carbon-copies, writes Steve Keen.
Abbott’s Night at the Museum keeps the focus on the Libs
If the Liberal game-plan was to get the attention off themselves and onto Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott’s new frontbench isn’t the way to do it.
Crikey Says: Defectors, disloyalty and confusion swirl
Malcolm Turnbull will fail in his ambitions, but still retain his convictions. Which is more than can be said for almost any other contemporary political leader.
Julie Bishop, Reanimator
If WorkChoices is dead, Julie Bishop is Dr Frankenstein. She’s got the corpse on a table and is going to keep working feverishly until new life flows through its cold, hard veins, writes David macCormack.
Mungo: Nelson should just say yes to saying sorry
After ten long years the federal Liberals are still dithering over whether to be part of a formal apology to the stolen generation of indigenous Australians. They have learned nothing; but apparently they have forgotten just about everything, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Political donations: Gems aplenty in the annual deluge
There are literally dozens of fascinating stories in today’s deluge of political donations figures for the 2006-07 financial year, writes Stephen Mayne.
Who’d want to be a state Liberal leader?
It was barely noticed amid the death throes of the Howard government, but 11 October last year was a significant anniversary: ten years since the Liberal Party last won a state election. Rarely has a major political party endured such a run of failures, writes Charles Richardson.
