Greg Combet has been handed the hospital pass of selling a price on carbon to an increasingly sceptical Australian public. A former union boss, he’s Labor through and through. We wait with bated breath for the Com-bot’s first pronouncement on… Read More ›
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Election 2010: "Giggling, grinning Oakeshott" betrayed voters
Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor, the two witless and gutless independents that handed power to Julia Gillard earlier this week, betrayed their electorates by siding with Labor, as John Styles explains in The Spectator: When you enjoy the sound of… Read More ›
Election 2010: Gutless, witless independents hand power to Gillard
I’m excluding Bob Katter, because, maverick that he is, he did at least support the Coalition (as his electorate would expect him to). The other two wet weekends were blinded by climate change and broadband, the two biggest non-issues of… Read More ›
Election 2010: Katter backs Coalition
BREAKING NEWS: Bob Katter has just announced his support for the Coalition. The other independents are due to announce their decision later this afternoon. Stay tuned. UPDATE: Sky is predicting the other two independents will be backing Labor, handing a… Read More ›
Election 2010: Decision expected today
After two and a half weeks of doubt, it appears likely that the three independent MPs will announce, at a press conference this afternoon, their decision on who should form the next government. Sadly, my money is on Labor, as… Read More ›
Green nightmare approaching for Australia
With Andrew Wilkie backing Labor [who didn't see that coming? He's a former Green himself, which we all know is hard Left in drag] it looks like Julia will cling on to the power she so desperately craves, but at… Read More ›
Election 2010: New poll is the only answer
Rather busy at present so only a short post, but I have been watching, with increasing dismay, three obscure independent MPs turn into pocket despots as the balance of power goes to their heads in double quick time. Ludicrous demand… Read More ›
Election 2010: Labor's implosion
Didn’t take long for the recriminations and back-stabbing to begin. In fact, it began on election night thanks to Maxine McKew. A great advert for Julia’s plea to the independents for “stable government”, ain’t it? Andrew Bolt does the round-up:… Read More ›
Election 2010: Climate role in choosing new government
It will be down to a bunch of independent MPs to determine whether Julia Gillard or Tony Abbott forms the next Australian government, with both the major parties unable to command an overall majority. Three of them are small-c conservative,… Read More ›
Election 2010: hung parliament?
A stunning result for Tony Abbott. Back in November 2009, having won the leadership by just one vote, all the commentators were predicting a total “wipe-out” at the 2010 election, and just look what happens. Tony “wipes out” Labor’s majority,… Read More ›
