Federal Liberal Party director Brian Loughnane and shadow cabinet minister Tony Abbott were spotted at one of Canberra’s premier eateries last night, writes Alex Mitchell.
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Confusion at the Mersey – will the takeover win Braddon for the Coalition?
If we cast our minds back to the 2004 election, a final week visit to Tasmania by Howard and Latham became both an electoral turning point and defining image of that campaign. Could history be about to repeat itself? This time it won’t be about forests. It’s health that will get the leaders to Braddon.
“You’re a liar!” Tony Abbott strikes again
The pressure of the election campaign appears to be undermining Health Minister Tony Abbott’s better judgment, leading to another apology earlier this week after a heated on air exchange with Tasmanian state Health Minister Lara Giddings.
Campaign snippets
Bad week for Abbott … PM’s morning walk … Cactuses … the dark side of Labor’s energy policy.
The Abbott plan puts politics before health
It’s very kind of the media to allow Minister Tony Abbott to keep the election focus on the perennial problems of public hospitals. This not only gives him an easy shot at the states, but also helps distract public attention from areas where the health buck stops firmly at his government’s feet.
Canberra’s toxic political culture
Yesterday Tony Abbott told The Insiders that the election campaign will not be personal, but it will be about a person’s character and capacity. Doublespeak at its very best.
Intervention lies fall on deaf Aboriginal ears
Tony Abbott’s office claims that 6,500 Aboriginal kids have so far been examined as part of the federal “intervention” in the Northern Territory. Simply not true.
Hospitals: they’re Abbott’s ideas, but Rudd’s making the running
The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Health and Ageing called its report tabled in the Parliament last December “The Blame Game: Report on the inquiry into health funding”. Kevin Rudd has clearly read it.
Mersey Hospital back on the critical list
There were no ifs, buts or maybes when Prime Minister John Howard strode on to the grounds of the Mersey Hospital at Latrobe in Tasmania and announced that the Federal Government was taking it over to protect the good people of nearby Devonport from the intention of the Tasmanian Labor Government to downgrade its facilities.
Sorry, PM, it’s just that they love him more
After reading this morning’s Newspoll numbers, the PM might see that the problem is not that he is friendless. It is that he is not as highly regarded as those he is attacking, writes Richard Farmer.
Electoral pork or lipstick on a pig?
It’s pork barrelling season once more. But is the government biting off more than it can chew? And will the electorate be left with a nasty taste in its mouth?
Champion of ‘caucasian’ health meets the locals
Gulkula in north east Arnhem Land will once again this weekend host Garma, the Territory’s leading Aboriginal festival of culture and ideas. This year’s theme: Indigenous health: real solutions for a chronic problem. But there’s a Caucasian in the woodpile.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 2 August, 2007
Tony Abbott: it’s all about getting re-elected.
Next to Brough, Abbott the picture of restraint
Another day of campaigning and another Commonwealth Government move in to an area traditionally controlled by the States.
The Howard government ducks for cover
The Howard government is getting rattled and sulky. The increasingly shrill precious footstamping over Kevin Rudd’s clever and determined refusal to buy the wedge over Dr Haneef is growing more audible by the day. And they’re ducking for cover all over the place.
Margin notes for John Winston Howard: The Biography
The PM does the 7:30 Report … Great moments in spin and Cossie’s logic … Civility in politics? … Déjà vu all over again?.
Political bite-sized meaty chunks
Tough times for the Coalition … Libs’ Broad church … Fat hack loses preselection … An election date indicator?
No shock and awe: AMA brush-off to Brough
The past week has seen a huge brawl develop between the offices of Mal Brough and Tony Abbott— with Abbott coming out on top.
