Who will be the next ambassador to the US?Obama’s pal Jeff Bleich was announced as the new US ambassador to Australia. Dennis Atkins speculates on the contenders for the plum job of Australian ambassador to the US.
Kim Beazley
Tips and rumours: Things to change at The Oz?
Is The Oz set for a major overhaul? And what’s happening down at the ATO?
Beazley or Carr as US ambassador?
Thanks to PM Kevin Rudd’s public service shake up, speculation is mounting over who will be Australia’s new US ambassador. The two hot favourites: Kim Beazley and Bob Carr, writes Phillip Coorey.
Will Turnbull be repeating Beazley’s history?
Is opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull destined to be the next Kim Beazley - the great leader that never was? Quite possibly, writes Kerry-Anne Walsh.
graph pr0n Comitatus: Rudd vs Howard at 17 months
Another quarter has passed, so it’s probably time we updated our Howard vs. Rudd polling comparisons.
The Howard Years: history told by the players
The Howard Years is an illustration of the problems of history-telling, writes Peter Brent.
Crikey Says: Crikey says
These are indeed lean days for cronyism.
Blogwatch: the first 100 days
What about gay rights? … Enough hubris already … More air miles than ever before.
Richard Farmer’s political bite-sized meaty chunks
Not going to dinner … Exposing a weak man … Biting Malcolm back … The pathway to politics … Out with fluffy symbolism! … The Daily Reality Check …
Crikey scoop: Beazley’s going back to uni
Now that Kevin Rudd has shut the door on giving out overseas ambassadors’ postings to former ALP notables, some of them have announced their moves into academia, writes Alex Mitchell.
Newspoll: Better than it might have been for Dr Brendan
There’s no real surprise in the voting intention or preferred prime minister figures in the first Newspoll for the year. Indeed, they are academic. Still, opposition leader Brendan Nelson can draw heart from his approval rating, writes Christian Kerr.
Flint: Can the Queen’s representative be a republican?
In this regard, it should be recalled the Governor-General is not the representative of the British Queen, but of The Queen of Australia. Although this mistake is often repeated, the distinction is fundamental, writes David Flint.
Mungo: Howard’s decline and fall, part 2
In our continuing series of extracts from Mungo MacCallum’s new book “Poll Dancing: The Story of the 2007 Election,” he looks at the unlikely rise of Kevin Rudd: “I had always been somewhat ambivalent about Rudd…”
Turnbull knows not to turn away opportunity
It’s interesting to listen to the chorus of voices telling Malcolm Turnbull not to go for the Liberal leadership so soon: first-term opposition leaders are doomed, it could ruin his career, better to let someone else take the first turn, writes Charles Richardson.
Don’t forget 39 Labor MPs didn’t want Kevin Rudd
Slicing through Labor’s post-election euphoria is the stark fact that 39 of Prime Minister-elect Kevin Rudd’s parliamentary colleagues voted against him for the leadership less than 12 months ago, writes Alex Mitchell.
MacCormack: The life and death of Peter Costello
Maybe Peter Costello has a cunning plan. More likely, he hasn’t got the stomach for opposition. He didn’t have the guts to be Prime Minister. He certainly won’t have the guts to be Opposition Leader, writes David MacCormack.
Tips and rumours
This morning a large sum of money appeared in my bank account. I rang my bank and was told it was a family payment from the government. I was also told that a lot of people have received a payment this morning. Until I get a letter I’m not sure what this payment is for […]
Alas, the “narrowing” will be too late for Howard
This poll-mix, which includes the just-released Morgan, is fortnightly, and stretches back to the last weeks of Kim Beazley’s leadership, writes Peter Brent.
MacCormack: Howard struggles as Rudd stays on message
Ouch. You know Kevin Rudd must have flogged John Howard last night when even The Australian scored it a narrow victory to the Labor leader, writes David MacCormack.
Vale Kim Beazley Snr, link to politics past
Beazley pere was one of Labor’s old guard, who saw much of the Whitlamite liberalisation as anathema. Guy Rundle looks back.
Newspoll: 56-44 … again
The Australian’s “56 to 44” typeset must be close to clapped out from over-use. The most recent poll-mix, of four polls in the fortnight up to yesterday and taking in the weekend’s Newspoll, comes to 57 to 43 in Labor’s favour.
The PM is ready to make his final declaration of war
It’s barely perceptible, but you can just sense the federal election slipping back towards John Howard., writes Alex Mitchell.
Kim Beazley fighting the stage fright
Kim Beazley was a political actor who constantly had to battle his stage fright. Behind the apparently calm and confident man who lectured us with long words in lengthy sentences was a nervous Nellie quite lacking in confidence, writes Richard Farmer.
A portrait of the week that was…
What a week! And First Dog On The Moon looks at Crosby-Textor’s poll monster.
