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What do you do when your tactics are completely failing and defeat is looming? Some people might decide to try something different but not the Australian Labor Party.

Outgoing Labor MP Steve Gibbons has delivered an impressive sledge against internal ALP rivals.

Faced with their opponents abandoning sound policy, what should Labor do? Maybe do the same, says one theory.

Could a six-year-old sex scandal really bring Julia Gillard’s minority government undone? The Power Index’s Matthew Knott reports.

Voters prefer the Coalition if there’s another GFC, and they’re convinced there’s a surge of asylum seekers coming to Australia.

Brad Kitschke, head of the Australian Sporting Goods Association and leader of the Fair Imports Alliance, has claimed that Tony Abbott’s office effectively told him that the opposition would support his group on the GST issue if it came out against the carbon tax.

Julia Gillard’s support has collapsed among voters and she now trails Tony Abbott as preferred Prime Minister.

One of the better aspects of the carbon price package revealed yesterday is its governance arrangements.

The Government appears unconvinced it should be in power, and the Opposition will say anything, no matter how ridiculous, to confirm that.

Julia Gillard has not been able to give voters a sense of who she is beyond the woman who knifed Kevin Rudd.

Labor is getting thumped by the media and in the polls, but when it comes to complex issues and long term reform people should be patient. A humane carbon-neutral country is in the mail, writes Ben Pobje.

One of the striking elements about the public’s belief in climate change that emerges from today’s Essential Report findings is its highly politicised nature.

John Faulkner’s Wran oration — described as the “speech of his life” — is, in fact, his Seinfeld moment: it is a speech about nothing. Labor’s problems go much deeper.

One feature of this federal government is that it is always in a hurry. There is no patience to wait until everything is in order before making an announcement. Slow down! says Richard Farmer.

The voters of middle Australia have turned on Labor, Essential Report has shown.

Today Bernard Keane writes of a time when politicians treated voters like they actually had half a brain …

The latest Newspoll result shows a big surprise rebound for Labor after a string of poor polls. A 54-46 deficit recorded in the wake of the carbon tax announcement has been reversed to a 51-49 two-party preferred Labor lead, reports William Bowe.

The week’s Essential finds Labor copping a forceful backlash from the carbon tax, with the two-party vote flipping from 51-49 in favour of Labor to 52-48 in favour of the Coalition, writes William Bowe.

The Greens’ proposal to adopt an initial fixed carbon price from July 1, 2012 has been adopted by the government — but not necessarily by the cross-benches.