It is becoming increasingly clear that the Liberal Party has decided to drop Malcolm Turnbull and recall Peter Costello to lead them at the next federal election, writes Alex Mitchell.
Federal Opposition
Estimates schmestimates: Opposition goes soft on the ALP
You get the impression from senior Coalition senators that they’re not prepared to do the hard work of sifting through material and building a case in the search for embarrassing revelations, writes Bernard Keane.
Mafia scandal should make O’Farrell and Turnbull very nervous …
And just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse, it now seems the Federal Police have been investigating links between the Liberal Party organisation and a local franchise of the Calabrian mafia, writes Irfan Yusuf.
Penny Wong is a cipher for Kevin Rudd
Penny Wong isn’t really to blame for the growing debacle of the Government’s emissions trading scheme plans. She’s a cipher for Kevin Rudd, writes Bernard Keane.
Turnbull is just a bad poll from implosion
Turnbull’s leadership could implode very quickly if there are any further polling reverses, writes Bernard Keane.
The coalition got it really, really wrong on the financial crisis
Looking at the Essential Report from yesterday — the magnitude of how wrong the Coalition not only got the stimulus package, but the broader GFC starts to become apparent, writes Possum Comitatus.
Opposition backflips on stimulus package
Turnbull this morning told the Coalition joint party room that while he was happy to take a short-term political hit, he was willing to negotiate with the Government to pass the package, writes Bernard Keane.
No asylum from the Opposition’s xenophobia
It’s okay for Coalition Governments to seek investment from Middle Eastern countries, but when a Labor Government does it, it’s Whitlamesque mendicancy to swarthy Arabs types, writes Bernard Keane.
Kevin the bureaucrat and the petitions committee
The House of Representatives petitions committee, which could be used by the Opposition as a sort of mini-Estimates process if they had their wits about them, writes Bernard Keane.
Comitatus: Political advice by the column inch
The opposition should spend a little more time focusing on real policy issues that the public actually gives a hoot about and a little less time following the droning choir of News Ltd spruikers, writes Possum Comitatus.
With friends like Alexander…
Just shut it, Alexander! Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has told the Adelaide Advertiser that is considering a switch to state politics to run against Premier Mike Rann in the 2010 state election, with the focus on water supply.
