Guy Rundle
Correspondent-at-large
Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He's a former editor of Arena Magazine and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.
Factional politics has always relied to a degree on the ability of driven individuals to create a network from scratch What’s distinctive about this one is the sheer number of players who are total chancers.
Labor is betting that the Coalition's problems are now so grave as to make that a minor matter. Bill Shorten better hope so. Because this simmering factional tension could eventually be the end of him.
How has a suburban branch warlord become a mortal threat to the Labor Right?
What is it about Jane Garrett, a somewhat blemished inner-city politician, that excites such loyalty and passion?
Crikey correspondent-at-large Guy Rundle uncovers a seething, intra-factional skirmish that threatens to tear the ALP apart.
It’s Hilakari vs hari-kari, as documents reveal the factional war that could disembowel Labor in Victoria.
Is it Malcolm Turnbull’s last chance? A Victorian ALP factional stoush, a mix of political clashes and personal rivalries, is threatening mayhem.
Everything Turnbull does now produces the sort of contempt one feels for someone living out an imaginary life on our time.
The only possible strategic response to this assault on workers' rights is wildcat strikes.
A recent op-ed dismisses the strength of Finnish education based on the fact that the language has phonetic spelling. There's a bit more to it than that.
