It only takes one to rock the boat, but one is also enough to capsize it. If Latham were to win, the party would be heading for another ducking.
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December 01, 2003 | Graham
It takes two to Tango but only one to rock the boat
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November 29, 2003 | Peter
ALP Leadership Fun
Jeez, I go away for a few days off, pick up a paper on Friday driving back to Perth, and find the ALP leadership issue back on the front page. Sometimes I think politicians will do anything for a headline, even eat their own leader. All that phoning around […] Continue Reading…
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November 28, 2003 | Graham
Sydney’s house prices help the huddled masses
Apparently it now takes 45 percent of average income in Sydney to service the typical first mortgage on the average first home. In the rest of the country it is only 28.4 percent. This is good news for all of us.
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November 27, 2003 | Graham
Two previews: Kevin Rudd for Leader and I scoop Howard’s first campaign ad
Kevin Rudd is my local member and as a local member I reckon he’s great, no matter how I vote. He’s also very effective as a foreign affairs spokesman. But if Labor wants to get ahead, making him leader would be the least optimal choice.
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November 27, 2003 | Graham
What part of Separation of Powers doesn’t he understand?
Joh Bjelke-Petersen famously couldn’t explain to the Fitzgerald Commission what the doctrine of separation of powers meant, and the whole country laughed. What would you expect from a hayseed “banana bender”? From some of the media comments that followed it was clear that most of those snidely sniggering […] Continue Reading…
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November 26, 2003 | Graham
The very model of a modern ex-Prime Minister
Former Australian Prime Minister and life member of the Liberal Party Malcolm Fraser has joined the cyber age and posted a petition “To End Detention and Separation of Families in Australia” at www.petitiononline.com.
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November 26, 2003 | Graham
Reporting my own demise
In a short biog I once described myself as an “inside observer” of the Liberal Party. While the term hadn’t been invented then, I thought of myself as being in some respects an “embedded” journalist. As we have recently seen, embedding brings its ethical challenges.
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November 25, 2003 | Graham
Drag out and knock down the Drama Queens – Internet Content Providers are coming through
What’s the point of rules favouring an “Australian” film industry if that industry can’t even make films that Australians want to watch? Get out of the way guys. There are plenty of other types of content and some of us who are manufacturing it are coming through.
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November 24, 2003 | Graham
Web journalist and former State Presidential candidate to face Liberal Disciplinary Committee
The Queensland Liberal Party State Council last night referred me and Marion Feros to the Liberal Party’s disciplinary committee under Clause 21D of the party’s constitution.
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November 23, 2003 | Graham
Camelot and Sherwood Forest
Along with many Australians I winced at all the Nolan Ned Kellies stepping out of their dunnies at the opening of the Olympics, but I am a Camelotian minority in this country which sings Waltzing Matilda, a story about an itinerant thief, as its unofficial anthem.
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