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Wishing for my country
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Earlier this week Kim Beazley was dethroned from the leadership of the Labor party by Kevin Rudd. This was a long time coming, and much overdue in my book. I’ve been a...
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Being right, not popular
Image via Wikipedia There's something about Kevin Rudd that really sets my teeth on edge. Had I gone to school with him I'm sure I would have been tempted to give him a regular smack on the back of his...
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Screwball politics
Image via Wikipedia Like much of Australia I've been watching the Liberal party slowly come apart in recent days. You know when you're watching a horror movie and the creepy music is playing and one of...
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Playing safe
Image via Wikipedia I watched bits and pieces of the French Open women’s final on Saturday. Sam Stosur, having swept aside more highly credentialed opponents leading into the final, found herself...
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Bye bye Kevin
Image via Wikipedia It's a big news day. As I'm writing this I'm listening to Kevin Rudd speaking after he has been ousted as Australian Prime Minister. Though he's been shaky for while this outcome...
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No idea
One of my major beefs about Julia Gillard as Prime Minister is her deeply flawed sense of judgement. How can I support a leader who misread the tea-leaves so poorly again and again, and makes one poor...
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Them’s the facts
It seems inevitable that sometime soon there will be a leadership challenge to Julia Gillard by Kevin Rudd. It’s been brewing for months as Gillard has lurched from one botched situation to another. In...
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Reaping what you sow
Gillard V Rudd | Rudd Says Still Foreign Minister. Shaun Carney, probably the best political commentator I read, has it down perfectly here. This is the reality that all those red faced Labor ministers...
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It’s our party, and I’ll cry if I have to
After the events of the last few days I realise I’m just about done with federal ALP. It’s been an unedifying and ugly spectacle watching as the minions of Gillard line up to take a swipe at Kevin...
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Last chance politics
I was sitting in the First Class lounge at Paddington waiting to board my train to Bath that I found out that Julia Gillard had been deposed as Prime Minister by Kevin Rudd. I had glanced up at the TV...
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