The insufferable Smirking Pete - the man who will go to his grave with curvature of the spine caused by the chip he’s been carrying on his shoulder since John Howard made one of his better decisions and declined to hand over the prime ministership to an immature bag of wind - gloated on Lateline […]

Here’s an interesting article about the steps the Libs are taking to rebuild the party.  Apart from the information that they are resurrecting Richard Alston to be involved in the review (please), there’s also a couple of memorable quotes:
A debate followed in which the West Australian MP, Don Randall, said the campaign was the worst […]

Costello has just announced he will not stand as leader.  Will serve out his term…
What was it Paul Keating said about him…?
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Be interesting to see if she hangs on in Bennelong……
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First it was the Auditor General, now the International Panel on Climate Change is issuing reports at a time obviously intended to cause maximum embarrassment to the Howard Government’s re-election campaign.
It’s really time we looked at the role these unelected officials play in our society.
As to the substance of the latest report, Mr Howard […]

All governments seem to enter a period of terminal decline once they’ve been in power for two or three terms. It’s like the corporate life cycle only speeded up into dog years. The evidence for it can be seen in the Liberals in the early 1970s, and the fall of the Keating Government, and currently […]

There are all sorts of reasons why the Howard Government should not be returned to office, but high on my list is this: they have done nothing for at least 12 months other than try to get re-elected. That’s a third of their freakin’ time in office when all they’ve done is use the resources […]

This team thing that the Libs devised is just terrific … best campaigning strategy since Kim Beazley’s ‘Rollback’.
It’s more like a cricket team than a football team. Each team member gets a chance to perform in the spotlight. First we had Tip Costello, ‘creaming’ Wayne Swan. Yeah well, it’s important for the team leader […]

The Liberal Party continues to display the campaigning wizardry that has made it the envy of conservative parties the world over and a case study taught in schools of political science from Princeton to … IDK … Bangalore?
Captain Mal Brough, in the blunt honest plain-spoken way that has made him the idol of indigenous […]