Three moments in Conservative politics yesterday.
Leader of the liberal party
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Perhaps the small “l’s” provide a clue
As the Parliamentary Liberal Party contemplates its leadership future, members should perhaps give more than a passing glance to what happened in the Victorian seats of McMillan and Kooyong. Richard Farmer writes.
Tips and rumours
Sussex Street was forced to call on its renowned crisis management skills today when stories broke of American campaign consultant Vic Fingerhut’s role in the ALP campaign. According to today’s Daily Telegraph, Fingerhut, a US polling guru, was the author of Kevin Rudd’s “working families” campaign theme. Whilst Fingerhut’s campaign advice has been eagerly embraced […]
Rundle: How the Coalition could win… Part 2
John Howard addresses the nation: “Ladies and gentlemen this is to announce that while I am caretaker Prime Minister until November 24 I will no longer be leading the Liberal-National coalition as presumed prime ministerial candidate…”
A Liberal leader from the ashes … Brendan Nelson
There’s counting of votes going on at a very senior level in the Liberal Party but it’s got nothing to do with November 24. It’s for a ballot after then: numbers work for a leadership contest. Crikey understands it’s absolutely serious, writes Christian Kerr.
‘I will decide who leads the Liberal Party and under what terms I lead it’
John Howard has reversed his Prime Ministerial exit strategy. For seven years, the PM has stressed that his leadership of the Liberal Party will come to an end when his colleagues no longer support him in that role, but it didn’t turn out that way. How could we have got it so wrong?
