Power to choose


The King is dead, let’s assassinate the King

And now the worms turn. Perhaps not today – they’re a bit distracted by the Liberal Party rabble – but soon enough. The journalists who have been bagged by Coalition toadies and would-be Liberal candidates as being a bunch of doctrinaire Howard-haters will start to show their true colours, writes Michael Pascoe.

Flint: The real campaign is yet to begin

The later the election is held, the more chance the government has to attract late deciders away from the opposition. So Parliament will probably sit again –and a good thing too, writes David Flint.