Newspoll: 52-48 to CoalitionRelatively good news for Labor from Newspoll, which shows the Coalition’s eight point two-party preferred lead cut to four, reports William Bowe.
Opposition
Come in Spinner: The classic art of opposition
While it’s all well and good for an opposition to constantly oppose the government, every now and then they should agree with something the government does. More of the old paradigm in the new paradigm, says Noel Turnbull.
Grattan: Where to now for asylum seekers?
How times have changed since John Howard and Tampa, notes Michelle Grattan. Kevin Rudd’s relationship with Indonesia is strong and the Opposition’s ‘Labor are immigration softies’ line falls flat.
Opposition makes public the losers
The Opposition politicians are lazy and don’t provide a clear political alternative. Instead their main aim is oppose everything: even things that will come back to bite them later, writes Alister Drysdale.
Crikey Says: OECD kick the Opposition while they’re down
It’s hard to imagine a darker week for the federal Opposition. Until the OECD weighed in.
Errington: How will the Libs react to defeat?
If, as seems increasingly likely, the Coalition loses on 24 November, the Liberals are in danger of self-destruction without the spoils of office to help enforce discipline, writes Wayne Errington.
Why interest rates matter, in pictures
With interest rates and widespread navel gazing about the political consequences taking up the media-space, today we go to some spiffy little charts that sum up perfectly the millions of words that will be written over the next month, writes Possum Comitatus.
Downer and Rudd: yapping attack dog and Mini Me
The government is playing to a common sentiment in voters that when one side starts looking arrogant and taking their vote for granted that they should consider giving the underdog a go.
Mixing the polls: Tuesday edition
Today’s poll-mix, of a Morgan, Nielsen and Newspoll over the last fortnight, giving greater weight to the Newspoll because it is most recent (more here on the methodology) shows a 56 to 44 two party preferred in Labor’s favour.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Crikey Says – 30 July, 2007
For more than a decade the politics of the wedge have served John Howard faithfully and to advantage. Take an issue that places your opponent in a corner, wait for him to adopt a counter position and watch as he is wedged into a little sink of dark unpopularity.
Great Australian political insults — a Crikey list
Yesterday Alexander Downer called Kevin Rudd shallow, cynical, immodest, mealy-mouthed, duplicitous, a boy in a bubble, a foreign policy imposter and unfit to lead the nation. Crikey was inspired by this litany of insults to create a new list.
