Before the ALP coffin is rolled into the furnaces there is a tiny sliver of hope for Premier Nathan Rees – the NSW division of the Liberal Party, writes Alex Mitchell.
NSW Liberal Party
Baseball bats ready at four NSW by-elections
Next Saturday’s four by-elections in NSW will show the electoral toxicity of the Labor Government, writes Alex Mitchell.
Abjorensen: The Liberals fail to understand and fail to learn
As usual, the Liberal Party is in disarray after losing an election, writes Norman Abjorensen.
Not the first time ALP candidates have been “smeared” with Islam
If there’s one person who won’t be surprised at senior Liberal Party figures being caught red-handed distributing allegedly Islamic material in a marginal Western Sydney seat, it is former ALP candidate for Greenway Ed Husic, writes Irfan Yusuf.
Ala Akba, as they say in the NSW Liberal party
There are few certainties in politics but it is odds-on that the NSW Liberal Party director Graham Jaeschke won’t be keeping his job after the federal election. On his watch, the NSW Liberal Party has failed to tame the far right fundamentalist Christian faction which has been encouraged during Prime Minister John Howard’s 11-year term […]
Quiz: Which election night party is that?
Angry, distraught people yelling abuse at TV broadcast of Howard victory speech. Is it a) Kooyong b) Higgins c) Australian DF Barracks Mess room, Iraq d) Yarralumla. Guy Rundle puts you to the test.
Will Howard need to switch to a safe seat?
In a fiery Question Time yesterday, the PM declared: “I can beat the Leader of the Opposition without resort to smears.” On a federal level, that may well be true. But even if this happens, the question remains: can John Howard defeat Maxine McKew?
Who does Dr Phelps really represent?
The right-wing extremists are not just in the NSW Liberal Party, they have made it to the centre. And the revelations yesterday of Federal minister Gary Nairn’s chief of staff, Peter Phelps, heckling a Labor candidate at a public meeting, have brought that further out into the open.
An election timing hint?
You can read what you like into this email distributed to the NSW Liberal Party faithful yesterday:
Liberal factional schism is the Towke of the town
Another day, another set of detailed accounts of factional schism in the Sydney branches of the Liberal Party arrives in the Crikey email. Here are the latest offerings. We don’t know who sends them and can only guess at the agendas in play, but a pattern is emerging: bitter internal chaos eagerly discussed.
NSW Libs: A goose well cooked
There’s continued speculation in the NSW Liberal Party over who will actually end up as the candidate for the should-be safe seat of Cook.
Liberal preselections the Towke of the town
Things are crook in the federal seat of Cook. Last week members of the Cook conference of the NSW Liberal Party overwhelmingly selected Michael Towke born in Australia of French and Lebanese parents, to be their candidate for the Cronulla-Sutherland seat of Cook in the upcoming federal elections.
Yawn…more NSW Libs branchstacking…sigh
It isn’t just political biographies penned by academics that are causing political heartburn to the Howard government. The front page news in The Australian concerns the branch stacking and business adventures of the newly-almost-endorsed candidate for the safe Sydney seat of Cook, Michael Towke.
Tips and rumours
NSW Liberal Party state executive met last night to consider disciplinary action against a number of party members who have criticised the right-wing state executive in the media. Included among the accused are former Liberal Party state president and moderate Michael Osborne. Osborne is a strong friend of the Prime Minister John Howard. He appeared […]
