It’s a laugh a minute on the Flegg Punch and Judy show in Queensland.
CM journalists appear ready to accept any assertion by the Nicholls camp. Here are a few, dot-point style, with some more informed comment.

There is a convention in leadership ballots that the leader not use their casting […] Continue Reading…

Kevin Rudd has sent his troops out to investigate the plight of the homeless living in shelters in their electorates. Here’s what they are likely to find if they are diligent.

There are only about 20,000 homeless in Australia if you are talking about people sleeping rough, not 100,000 as […] Continue Reading…

No, not a radical unionist – I mean Santo Santoro.
The Courier Mail has run a highly misleading story this morning about the Nicholls challenge to Flegg. It portrays Flegg as a bumbler who walked away from a leadership contest with the unjustly spurned Nicholls. In fact it is Nicholls […] Continue Reading…

Breaking news – Tim Nicholls has announced that he is challenging Bruce Flegg for the leadership of the Queensland Liberal Party tomorrow. Who is Tim Nicholls? That’s something that plenty of people are bound to be asking as he’s failed to make any impression on Queensland politics to date.
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Imagine if Peter Costello had become Prime Minister during the course of the last parliament. It’s one thing to have the heir apparent stump-off in high dudgeon – another to have the leader and defeated Prime MInister do so.
No wonder his colleagues were never prepared to trust him with […] Continue Reading…

There are only a very few things that I would count as real personal political achievements that have had national significance. One was obviously crafting the strategy that won the 1995 Queensland state election. Another, was making sure that Mal Brough won the preselection for Longman in the same […] Continue Reading…

11 days ago I blogged about the Prime Minister’s reaction to a woman being knocked down in front of him. I said it might have been a defining moment in the campaign, but I never expected there to be a book-end to the incident.

When school girl Rebecca Sanders fainted […] Continue Reading…

Now, I know this isn’t his fault, but when a woman is knocked to the ground in front of you and you just walk away, perhaps you owe someone an apology.

In this campaign this could be the defining moment that Mark Latham’s “muscle-up” was in the last one.

The problem for John Howard is that people have just made up their minds that they want a change of government, so there’s not much that will deter them. That doesn’t mean that Labor doesn’t have some problems holding on to them.
GetUp commissioned research which suggests that the Labor […] Continue Reading…