tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post1213518381409098969..comments2023-12-06T00:23:28.790+11:00Comments on Press gallery reform: Andrew Elderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-50225444913093636962010-06-28T16:32:27.695+10:002010-06-28T16:32:27.695+10:00Probably your best-ever post, Andrew. A cracker.
...Probably your best-ever post, Andrew. A cracker.<br /><br />I like you have wondered what on earth the miners were thinking. In negotiations with them I reckon Gillard will quietly pencil in the links betwen the ETS and the RSPT that they should have seen from the start, and that should certainly have informed the government's media strategy too.derrida deridernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-60190843340676744822010-06-25T20:07:50.194+10:002010-06-25T20:07:50.194+10:00Thankyou Kymbos, I did.
DH: watch this space.Thankyou Kymbos, I did.<br /><br />DH: watch this space.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-76994268487093275132010-06-25T14:57:03.959+10:002010-06-25T14:57:03.959+10:00You may or may not find this funny: http://www.you...You may or may not find this funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bMXVA9qj5I<br /><br />Kymbos.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-59575427050213021242010-06-25T10:44:56.504+10:002010-06-25T10:44:56.504+10:00Latham's had his spray as I predicted. What do...Latham's had his spray as I predicted. What do you reckon, Andrew?DHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362720961660684331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-487028414712295392010-06-25T07:48:55.629+10:002010-06-25T07:48:55.629+10:00Consider that Victoria goes to the polls in late N...Consider that Victoria goes to the polls in late November. For all Gillard's affection for Brumby, it's lineball and you don't want to mix Federal and State issues where you can avoid it. Work backwards from there: Melbourne Cup, then you've got the footy finals sucking media oxygen from September to the October long weekend - now you're in August. So if you're in Gillard's shoes you have basically got next week and July to create some clear air for yourself (and create a political persona different to Rudd), then get the writ underway. No choice, really.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-36594214207494308042010-06-25T00:15:46.500+10:002010-06-25T00:15:46.500+10:00You're predicting the election will be that ea...You're predicting the election will be that early? Brave call! Although I suppose Gillard has no particular incentive to hang on into the late spring.David Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01594699576390357505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-85759344885433838712010-06-24T22:05:43.608+10:002010-06-24T22:05:43.608+10:00Kymbos: in 1991 I was sure that Labor had signed i...Kymbos: in 1991 I was sure that Labor had signed its death warrant by replacing Hawke with Keating - one bitten, etc. True, the Rudd fans are released from Labor, but Abbott won't pick up too many of them.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-22717571045938964702010-06-24T22:04:06.231+10:002010-06-24T22:04:06.231+10:00DH: I'll have more to say on Rudd later, but i...DH: I'll have more to say on Rudd later, but in the meantime see if you can read Marr's account at your local library.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-79511378067086517852010-06-24T22:03:13.182+10:002010-06-24T22:03:13.182+10:00David J: I predict a flurry of activity around the...David J: I predict a flurry of activity around the RSPT and similar tweaks - nothing revolutionary, yet not static either - and in about six weeks we'll have an election, and as Garrett said in '07 things will be different.Andrew Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705844456819481896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-40226682221285302722010-06-24T09:09:26.544+10:002010-06-24T09:09:26.544+10:00I won't miss Rudd, but I lament the hold the N...I won't miss Rudd, but I lament the hold the NSW Right has over Labor. <br /><br />I'm interested to see you think there won't be electoral ramifications over a first term spill. Doesn't this hold the voters who elected Rudd in contempt? Won't they be tempted to vote for a party that would retain the person they voted for?<br /><br />KymbosAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-45082253266831509132010-06-24T01:40:42.655+10:002010-06-24T01:40:42.655+10:00Great analysis, great picture of Abbott, hope you&...Great analysis, great picture of Abbott, hope you're right, and Gillard will see him off. Sorry about Rudd though. I admired his grasp of detail. Wonder whether Mark Latham will emerge from the woodwork with an "I told you so".DHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05362720961660684331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22534369.post-17401897775534629892010-06-24T01:07:48.380+10:002010-06-24T01:07:48.380+10:00I'm seriously frustrated by the shallowness th...I'm seriously frustrated by the shallowness this whole thing is revealing in our political discourse. It's got nothing to do with different policy approaches. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2010/s2935399.htm" rel="nofollow">Paul Howes was on Lateline a couple of hours ago</a> complaining that Rudd had "lost message", and had dared to contact MPs to see if they were backing Gillard. As if they are good reasons to throw a Prime Minister out of office! You do something like that because a PM is defying the will of the party and the great mass of its supporters on important platform planks that derive from those supporters' aspirations. Except that no such planks exist anymore. <br /><br />All we have is Gillard atacking the Workchoices bogeyman while administering 80% of Workchoices as her preferred policy. How can she, as Rudd's loyal (till now) deputy, credibly offer a different policy approach? But in this age of hollowed-out politics this doesn't seem to matter.<br /><br />This is not meant to be a defence of Rudd - I loathe him, he's a bland right-wing managerialist who makes Hawke and Keating look like friends of the workers. But this affair is nothing more than intrigue between office-holders. It's not politics in the true sense of the word - the clash of interests of great social forces and groups of people - but a joke.David Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01594699576390357505noreply@blogger.com