Loaded Dogma

After getting knocked off 54-44 by Malcolm Turnbull in a spill this evening, Tony Abbott ends his career as the shortest serving Prime Mi...

I buried my prediction of the first Australian recession in decades in a post back in May , because I wasn't quite sure it would com...

Another budget has been and gone . Instead of the steaming turd that was the last budget, which was largely blocked by the Senate, this t...

Katherine Murphy runs with a nice little analogy: We can see right now that the Abbott government is doing that long walk that fast bowle...

Still snowed under with work, so no time for longer pieces. - I presume no domain expertise on Aboriginal matters so I can only sit ba...

So, the first #libspill came and went, largely as I predicted with Abbott keeping his job but none of his credibility. The only thing I ...

The #libspill is on . Only problem is: nobody is standing against Tony Abbott yet. Julie Bishop has ruled herself out, as has Scott Morri...

I have long thought that Scott Morrison would be the next leader of the Liberal Party, but I wasn't quite sure he would be the next P...

There have been various justifications made for why Tony Abbott knighting Prince Phillip on Australia Day has been so universally condemn...

We are at the point now where political pundits have to make up reasons why Tony Abbott does things. Andrew Elder has a lash : As I...

There are a lot of parallels between Australian and American politics at the moment. Last year, Tony Abbott won government by running an ...

I have not blogged for a while, but I have an excellent excuse: my firstborn son is a month old today. Thanks for those who have alrea...

Someone linked the ALP-friendly blog The Pub the other day on Twitter, and I read it idly because its stuff too often descends into boile...

It seems everybody hates Tony Abbott these days... well, almost everybody. Mike Seccombe makes the case in the Saturday Paper for the Ins...

So George Brandis is allegedly going to water down the promised nobbling of s18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, after pressure from Li...

Ezra Klein details the Green Lantern Theory of the American presidency , something which the US Left uses constantly to bash Barack Obama...

The right is tying itself in knots trying to think its way out of Abbott Disappointment Syndrome. The latest lead balloon to be floated i...

The right banged on and on about cost benefit analysis for the NBN and other big-ticket projects announced by Labor under Rudd and Gillar...

RMIT economics professor Sinclair Davidson got his head on 7.30 the other night, attacking the government from the right on its debt le...

Fairfax has kicked off what will no doubt be a long series of reports on links between the Liberal Party and corporate lobbyists with an ...