Labor retains its small leader in this week’s Essential Report poll, but its bad news for both Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Voters want to see the back of both of them.
Leadership
How to be leader of the pack
Companies need their worker bees, but it’s the leaders that make the real difference. Here’s 15 ways to be leader at work, from speaking up to not treating your coworkers like slaves. Maybe Turnbull should give it a read?
Rob(b) cops the Costello kiss of death
Just a few short weeks ago, it was Tony Abbott. Now it’s Andrew Robb’s turn to play Liberal leadership roulette.
Dog days for the Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal party needs to carefully examine the options. Is Wilson Tuckey really too old? Is Philip Ruddock still alive? Can Sir Robert Menzies be exhumed? asks Dr Norman Abjorensen.
Imagine if Howard and Costello were managing the credit crisis
Picture the credit crisis with the same leadership we had at this time last year, writes Bernard Keane.
Tech savvy, tough and sleepless: the Turmbull I know
Turnbull is a different creature to those Liberal leaders who have gone before him, writes Greg Barns.
Labor now gets the opposition leader it expected
From humble beginnings, Malcolm Turnbull has become the leader of the federal opposition. And of all people, Kevin Rudd knows how well his story will play with voters, writes Richard Farmer.
Smarter, more cocksure, Turnbull will take the fight to Rudd
Malcolm Turnbull’s key attributes, intelligence and ego, equip him well for the fight against Rudd, writes Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Oh dear. The Liberal leadership. Here we go again.
Generational change Coalition-style
So yesterday it was not a 50 year-old Peter Costello who became Leader of the Opposition but the 49 year-old Dr Brendan Nelson, with the 51 year-old Julie Bishop as his offsider. Not much sign of generational change there, writes Richard Farmer.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups
The Liberals call in the doctor … a nonexistent portfolio? … political appointments … no pity for ministerial staffers … Islamofascism …
Politicians honour Year of the Family
2007 has truly been the Year of the Family Man in Australian politics. In many cases, a loss to the party has resulted in a big win for working families, writes Jane Nethercote.
Errington: Unity and policy the challenge for Howard’s successor
The fact that opposition leaders who take the party leadership from a defeated prime minister never make it to the top job won’t stop some ambitious Liberals putting up their hand this week. And whoever ends up in the leadership will have a difficult time, writes Wayne Errington.
MacCormack: Is this how you win a 21st century election?
So this is Australian politics, 21st century style. Slick managerialism versus old-fashioned hand-outs. David MacCormack explores the repercussions of the approach of both parties.
Abjorensen: Why Costello won’t necessarily be the Coalition’s next leader
Howard has always maintained that the leadership belongs to the party; and he is right: it’s not his to give. Is it not possible that the party might choose someone else other than Costello when the time comes? asks Norman Abjorensen.
Comrie-Thomson: racing this time
Six weeks of the Reptiles waiting for a gaffe, a slip, a contradiction, a dummy-spit. No more “feeding the chooks” with selected leaks. Now is the chance to make a feather duster out of a rooster and leak from a great height, writes Paul Comrie-Thomson.
The Daily Verdict
Day One of the campaign and a victory for the Government on our Daily Verdict Indicator. That was as it should have been, writes Richard Farmer.
Smith: and then suddenly, nothing happened
I spent today, the day two of the campaign, with my son Conrad as his mother and I took him to his first day at pre-school. It was an interesting reflection on the impact of politics in suburban Australia. Or perhaps a lack of impact.
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.
MacCormack: John Howard and the power of non-conviction
The 1980s provides some instructive lessons about John Howard’s attitude toward power, lessons that senior Liberals would have done well to recall before Alexander Downer’s little Show-and-Tell meeting last week.
Spinning Howard’s end
We asked a range of spinners and PR operatives to advise the PM on the best means to an end: his dignified departure from office. Mike Smith writes the exit speech. Adam Kilgour advises on a smooth handover. Christain Kerr goes all the way with LBJ. Richard Farmer talks grace. Suzie Howie says honesty is the best policy.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 16 July, 2007
It’s hard to imagine what all the current fuss over Iraq can be about.
As Howard said on 14 May 2003, the naysayers have been defeated…
East Timor parliamentary elections: Fretilin cut by half
As the counting of votes drags on for East Timor’s parliamentary elections, it is becoming clear that the ruling Fretilin party will have its numbers cut by around half. While Fretilin appears to have improved slightly from its showing in the recent presidential polls, the emerging outcome represents a resounding defeat, writes Damien Kingsbury.
