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...

An excellent if highly cynical piece on yesterday's Reform Summit by Liam Hogan in the Guardian: The one thing I would not have e...

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...

Jeff Sparrow gets on the elitism bandwagon - by which I mean treating elitism as a subject of political discussion all of its own - in...

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...

Still working hard on business stuff so no time for anything more than Short Kicks. - As Piping Shrike rightly points out , the current...

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

Not much posting lately, for which I apologise. Three month old firstborn child, you understand. Not that much of long term interest has b...

Reading this WaPo piece on exactly how Americans hate the Republican Party , it put me in mind of similar polls on Obamacare, which also ...

Lest I be accused of running a hate site against Club Troppo after my previous article criticising aspects of their wonkery, today's...

Following on from Alan Moran's sacking from the Institute of Public Affairs  for anti-Islam tweets, John Quiggin sticks the knife in ...

Stephen Koukoulas is  on his hobby horse again  about Glenn Stevens and the RBA not being loose enough with monetary policy. In his unoff...

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...