The lonely island of centrismThere’s a game of push me-pull me being played in Canberra this week, with the ACTU trying to pull the ALP back to the Left, while Liberal MPs attempt to drag the party back to the right, says Rob Burgess.
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If the Liberals want to blame anyone, look at the Nationals
If there’s anyone to blame for Tony Abbott failing to get over the line, it’s the Nationals. Abbott himself performed far better than expected and deserves credit, but he has let down by the long-term failings of the Nats.
Where’s Warren?
Nationals leader Warren Truss remains conspicuously absent from the election landscape. If the Coalition wins, Truss will be Australia’s next Deputy Prime Minister, which makes him kind of a big deal. So where is Warren? Can anybody find him?
Grattan: Can you tell the difference between the Nats and the Libs?
If Tony Abbott wins the election, then Nationals leader Warren Truss would become Deputy PM. As Liberal policies become more in line with the Nationals, it will become harder for the Nationals to differentiate themselves.
Risk management, $100b and Question Time bingo
The Government faces a tough sell on climate change, especially if Abbott and his media cheerleaders are skillful enough salesmen to convince voters climate change can be crossed off their list of concerns just by throwing some handouts around.
Grattan: Is this the end of the Coalition?
The Coalition is straining to stay together, as the Nationals — lead symbolically by Barnaby Joyce — try to forge their own identity separate to the Libs. But the Coalition would be better off staying together to fight Rudd, writes Michelle Grattan.
My shovel’s better than yours: Rudd v Howard on infrastructure
Federal politicians are falling over themselves to claim credit for spending taxpayer’s money on infrastructure, writes Alan Moran. Too bad public projects are never judged with the same rigor as private projects.
Who’s leading the National Party?
95% of Australian voters can’t name the leader of the National Party, Warren Truss. Is it time for the higher-profile Barnaby Joyce to take over as leader? asks Michelle Grattan — after all, 4% of voters already think he is.
Crazy uncle Tuckey and the Coalition crash
The Coalition are tearing each other apart, with Joe Hockey likening Wilson Tuckey to the “the crazy uncle at a family wedding” and Warren Truss turning on Turnbull, as the ETS divides the party room.
Warren Truss: If only journos treated Labor as badly as the Nats
Journalists can deal in wish fulfilment all they like in their private lives, but it’s a different story when it comes to their responsibilities as journalists, writes Warren Truss, leader of the National Party.
Warren Truss: Rudd ETS is a “rabid dog”
The Rudd ETS will cost hundreds of thousands of Australian jobs if it is introduced as planned, but do nothing to cool the planet, writes National party leader Warren Truss.
Showtime for Truss and the Nats in Gippsland
It’s showtime for Warren Truss, the invisible man of Federal political leadership. Now he and his party face a massive test in Gippsland, writes Bernard Keane.
Nationals gaze into the abyss
The last of the post-election leadership issues was settled yesterday, with Warren Truss elected unopposed as leader of the Nationals, and Senator Nigel Scullion as his deputy, writes Charles Richardson.
Which way ahead for the Nats?
If the Nats were hoping for a bit of a publicity splash from their leadership election, they picked the wrong day yesterday to hold it, what with a new government and Kyoto and everything else, writes Mark Bahnisch.
