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November 9, 2010
Australia Push for constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians finds cross-party support (The Age) Leave a comment
November 8, 2010
Australia van Onselen shows he’s as ignorant about public opinion on gay marriage as the Libs (The Australian) Leave a comment
November 5, 2010
Australia Privacy rules prevent welfare agencies from communicating, lead to deaths (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
November 3, 2010
Australia Combet: Labor needs to return to being “party of progress” (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Kelly: Libs should preference Greens (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Dept. of Ed avoiding mention of suicide makes things worse (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
November 1, 2010
Australia ACTU chief: Weasel words undermine workers’ rights (The Punch) Leave a comment
Australia Vic Catholics: We don’t want to tell people which party to vote for, just that they should vote for a party with very specific policies (read: DLP) | Brown: Bullshit (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Gillard makes minor progress, attacks Abbott on asylum seekers (The Australian) Leave a comment
October 29, 2010
Australia We’re due for record numbers of asylum seekers (queue dog whistle) (The Australian) Leave a comment
October 28, 2010
Australia Libs continue to grasp at straws (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Come for the meandering article, stay for the lols-worthy comments (Punch) 2 comments
Australia Little wonder the Australian doesn’t like the Greens, what with Bob Brown feeling embarrassed for them and everything (Australian) Leave a comment
October 27, 2010
Australia Costello (politely) calls Howard a liar (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Gillard – Abbott’s being contrary : Abbott – No I’m not! (The Age) Leave a comment
October 26, 2010
Australia “Protest vote” theory of Greens support struggles, as Greens support does the opposite (The Courier Mail) Leave a comment
October 22, 2010
Australia Yet more people pissy about Hicks – this time re ‘proceeds of crime’ (The Australian) 2 comments
October 21, 2010
Australia Libs seem to have given up on early election: new policy just asking for Work Choices scare campaign (The Australian) Leave a comment
October 20, 2010
Australia Gillard doesn’t want caucus to feel ignored (she probably wants to avoid being shanked) (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Asylum seekers still fleeing oppression, Opposition still playing cheap politics (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
Australia Government’s pre-election ad blitz cost taxpayers $20million (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
October 19, 2010
Australia But it’s still only fixing a problem that shouldn’t have existed to start with (The Age) Leave a comment
October 18, 2010
Australia Greens’ longstanding campaign to examine children in detention gets some action (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Opposition worried people new policy might let people smugglers advertise Australia as somewhere asylum seekers are well treated. Can’t have them being well treated, can we? (The West Australian) 2 comments
October 11, 2010
Australia Abbott complains that Gillard didn’t… tell insurgents when a big juicy target was coming to town? (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Too bad for all the people hating on Gillard: the story didn’t come from her (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia (… like this guy) (The Australian) Leave a comment
October 8, 2010
Australia Union poll shows WorkChoices bogeyman was effective (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Lobbying is awesome, so long as all the people who can’t afford to be involved get involved. …what? It’s perfectly reasonable. (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia In defence of focus groups
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/focus-groups-dont-deserve-all-that-hostility-20101007-169kw.html
(Sydney Morning Herald)		 Leave a comment
October 7, 2010
Australia All hail the Queen of the bogans (The Australian) Leave a comment
October 5, 2010
Australia Director of conservative, corporate-funded Sydney Institute doesn’t like the Greens. Who knew? (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
October 4, 2010
Australia Highly scientific study finds public holidays harm productivity Leave a comment
October 1, 2010
Australia Bandt: “I simply hope our institutions of government here and abroad will extend to the planet the same courtesy as they do to the finance sector” (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
Australia Let’s learn about our cultural diversity challenge by looking at how non-migrant cultures do it. Makes way more sense than following the lead of other migrant cultures (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia That mighty warhorse of privatisation, Telstra, closes at… oh, record low. (The Age) Leave a comment
September 30, 2010
Australia Abbott pretends “parliament working as intended” actually means “I’m awesome” (The Australian) Leave a comment
September 29, 2010
Australia Gillard reminds Abbott he’s not the only one who can play politics (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Abbott’s pledge to arbitrarily block pairing comes under fire from community leaders (The Daily Telegraph) Leave a comment
September 28, 2010
Australia Federal government’s narrow definition of marriage could open door for states to legalise gay marriage (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia Labor comes around on journalist shield laws (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia New minister calls for political donation reform (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Abbott finds yet new ways to impede government doing its job (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Bogans cower as Muslims invade parliament (once ACA tells them about it, of course) (The Australian) Leave a comment
September 27, 2010
Australia “It was only after the independents sided with the government that Abbott started identifying what he claimed were problems with pairing the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker” (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Tuckey’s vanquisher confirms he’ll sit as an independent (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia The Oz continues to defend itself (condescendingly) about admitting (but only if you’re stupid) that they want the Greens destroyed (The Australian) 3 comments
September 24, 2010
Australia Abbott drops honour for tactics (Utterly unprecedented in all of political history) (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Hicks memoir “important for democracy” (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
September 23, 2010
Australia Abbott looking more and more likely to break promise on parliamentary reform (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Gillard makes it clear she’s got Rudd on a leash (The Australian) Leave a comment
September 22, 2010
Australia Psychologist: Hardened criminals treated better than asylum seekers (The Age) Leave a comment
September 21, 2010
Australia Fairfax: News Ltd suck. (Sydney Morning Herald) One comment
Australia According to people reliant on the media for their information, the media did a decent job (The Punch) Leave a comment
Australia In (ridiculously glossed over) defence of the party system (The Courier Mail) One comment
Australia Electoral Commission shows us the money (AEC) Leave a comment
September 20, 2010
Australia Minority government good for accountability Leave a comment
September 17, 2010
Australia We still earn more from our cheese exports than from uranium – or, why nuclear power is a really dumb idea (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Both majors have ex-leaders who’ll be a handful (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Turnbull: News Ltd and Fairfax need to suck it up, the ABC does a great job (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Is Abbott planning to renege on parliament reform? (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia “when Bob Katter uses [a] word 10 times each press conference you know it has to be a word on its way out” (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia It’s official: Fielding’s days are numbered (The Age) One comment
September 16, 2010
Australia Hung parliament woes continue over Speaker appointment (Oakeshott certainly likes speaking…) (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Indies call for Coalition to be constructive, not destructive (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia The key to Abbott’s almost-success: “no one ever lost an Australian election by dumbing down the issues too far” Leave a comment
September 15, 2010
Australia The Australian versus the Greens (Crikey) One comment
Australia Abbott showing his (political) age (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Turnbull promotion could be poisoned chalice (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia Hung parliament an opportunity, if people put the games aside (The Daily Telegraph) Leave a comment
September 14, 2010
Australia For all the public complaints about hung parliament, support for independents and the Greens is on the rise (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia The Indies’ choice seems favoured by most (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Old-style racism still in constitution (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
Australia 5000 asylum seekers in detention, but system “coping” (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
September 13, 2010
Australia “Journalists need to rediscover the conviction that facts matter more than the conventional “take” on those facts.” (Crikey) Leave a comment
Australia Was someone giving Hockey plausible deniability on Coalition costings? Or were they just disorganised as hell? (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Xenophon and Wilkie team up to protect journo’s confidential sources (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Indies didn’t betray anyone (Herald Sun) Leave a comment
Australia Gillard criticises media, News Ltd in particular (and damn are Fairfax happy to rub that in) (The Age) Leave a comment
September 10, 2010
Australia Gillard: Less spin (fingers crossed) (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Shadow ministry stays firmly in the past (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Abbott: Play nice with the Indies (I’m looking at you Bill and Barnaby) (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Head of Human Rights Commission blasts racism at heart of asylum seeker scaremongering (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Nationals could have got more from Labor than Libs (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Tuckey throws his toys (The West Australian) Leave a comment
Australia “The problem with the new politics, is that my side hasn’t been invited to play” (Punch) One comment
September 9, 2010
Australia Gay marriage opposition cost Labor outright victory (The West Australian) Leave a comment
Australia “Just how bad are things in the bush, really?” (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Wah, Westminster system working as intended, wah (alt: ‘There are fears Mark Kenny is a hack’) (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
Australia Former Labor minister calls for candidates to be selected by American style primaries (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Sheridan: I think centrist means “between right wing Labor and far-right wing Liberal” (The Australian) One comment
September 8, 2010
Australia Crook confirms he’ll sit on the crossbenches (The West Australian) Leave a comment
Australia Gillard: An era of consensus and accountability (The Australian) Leave a comment
Australia But she has a lot of work to do to earn what she’s been given (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia Minority government works fine elsewhere (The Age) Leave a comment
Australia But, complaints about the system working as intended continue (The Advertiser) Leave a comment
Australia Fred Nile wants another vote (a different one this time) (Sydney Morning Herald) Leave a comment
September 7, 2010
Australia Gillard to be Australia’s first elected female PM (ABC) One comment
Australia Oakeshott and Windsor support Gillard (ABC) Leave a comment
Australia Obvious (ABC) 2 comments
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