tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post1024700130546331234..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: When the bubble burstsAndrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-47794746943072718102011-11-26T20:58:44.363+11:002011-11-26T20:58:44.363+11:00David, you may be right.
Alpha, policy is the onl...David, you may be right.<br /><br />Alpha, policy is the only thing that will save this lot and policy is doing just that. I'm amazed at just how policy analysis is entirely reactive to press releases and 'independent reports'. The fact that the press gallery have missed the deposings of a PM and now a Speaker also casts doubt on the 'ear to the ground' thing. What are these people good for?<br /><br />Anonymous, I think O'Dwyer will be going strong long after Abbott's gone.<br /><br />Michael, they have no choice but to run a positive agenda. The next step is to mess with internal Liberal scheduling and render Abbott untenable. You own the agenda when you wreck the other party's leadership. Talkback shifts no votes and Labor should ignore it.<br /><br />Bobalot, as I'm about to blog soon Queensland is full of stupids. Slipper should have been an ex-MP a long time ago.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-6883845215480007292011-11-26T09:17:35.367+11:002011-11-26T09:17:35.367+11:00I think we just saw a continuation of the bubble b...I think we just saw a continuation of the bubble bursting.<br /><br />In a tight parliament, why on earth would the Coalition allow a pre-selection challenge against one of his MPs?<br /><br />Slipper had nothing to lose by becoming an independent and becoming the speaker. What is even more ironic is that this wouldn't matter if Tony Abbott didn't welch on his agreement on pairing the speaker one year ago.Bobalothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09890427022642427075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-27704173924008185092011-11-23T19:27:04.174+11:002011-11-23T19:27:04.174+11:00Labor seem to be acting like a party that is start...Labor seem to be acting like a party that is starting to get it's mojo back. Anthony Albanese's teardown of Abbott this afternoon was not only amusing as hell, but hopefully signalled a shift in the governments stance from defence to attack.<br /><br />To coin a metaphor, the Government has weathered a stormy opening session, played and missed a few times and looked all at sea against a ferocious attack. But the attack lacks depth, and now that there are a few runs on the board they are looking to take it up to the opposition.<br /><br />God knows it's what I'd do - ignore the polling, assume the government will go full term and start holding the Coalition to account for their spectacular lack of policy offerings, rampant populism at the expense of sound economic management and constant weathervaning to whatever populist rhetoric is spewed forth by the Talkbackerati.<br /><br />Government is won and lost in that middle 20 percent, and funnily enough it's the 20 percent that probably does more thinking than the 40 percent rusted on at either end put together. Give them something to think about in alternative to the same tired old sloganeering coming out of the opposition's tame press.Michael Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14888283343086845853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-14700309230043067752011-11-23T13:20:35.294+11:002011-11-23T13:20:35.294+11:00"The Australian is a useful guide to what the..."The Australian is a useful guide to what the current Coalition leadership is thinking but it is not a useful guide as to what is going on or what should happen."<br /><br />Quite. Seems Kelly O'Dwyer is doing a better job of questioning Abbott than the media.<br /><br />Strange times we live in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-7733806476975052982011-11-23T00:18:03.097+11:002011-11-23T00:18:03.097+11:00Labor are also starting to look like a broad team ...Labor are also starting to look like a broad team (give or take a bit of gay fission!) of achievers that is over the internal dysfunction and policy stallings and stuff-ups of the Rudd period. Carbon, MRRT (and accoutrements), smokes, pay equity. There's a story there of how Gillard has got her team working - in contrast to growing entropy in the LNP. But are we hearing more than the superficial stuff? No. As was discussed on Twitter recently, journalists with their ears to the ground ought to be digging up the more complex stuff like this, which requires thought and serious engagement. But no, it's easier to superficially divine the twitchings among the entrails of the latest Newspoll.Alphabajangodeltanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-70869579971876256732011-11-21T23:51:22.348+11:002011-11-21T23:51:22.348+11:00Actually, Andrew, I think you mixed four metaphors...Actually, Andrew, I think you mixed four metaphors. I dips me lid.David Irving (no relation)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05728918405973140125noreply@blogger.com