My own experience in this and other defamation matters perhaps gives me a different perspective to many people on the balance there should be between critical commentary and reporting on political matters.
John gorton
Rudd navigates the thicket of early election timing
Rudd is a natural conservative, a low-risk player, and early elections are a risky strategy. If Rudd decides that the advantages of boosting the minor party strength in the Senate outweigh the disadvantages, he can do it.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Meaty snippets from the home of government by Richard Farmer.
In the Territory, a coup takes two
The Northern Territory’s Country Liberal Party has divided down the middle. That’s two all. Our Man In Darwin reports.
Brendan Nelson, the Alexander Downer for a new century
For what has been, on the whole, a very successful political party, the Liberal Party has a decidedly mixed record on leadership, writes Charles Richardson.
Sleaze to be found in all sorts of high offices
It had to happen. Overnight a Facebook group has appeared called I won’t be voting for a drunken p-rvert 07, writes Christian Kerr.
