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As it enters the campaign’s middle week desperately needing to make a big leap forward, Labor is shifting its focus to health and throwing everything into its negative pitch against Tony Abbott. Trying…
Kevin is not the only Rudd chasing votes in Queensland. Brother Greg today set out from Brisbane on a 10-day trip that will take him to Cairns and back, campaigning as an independent candidate for the…
The best way of looking at this election is as a contest between voters’ long standing desire to get rid of the Labor government and their personal warmth towards Kevin Rudd. At the end of Week 2 the first…
Sometimes it’s hard being a sister. Take Christine Forster, the gay sibling of Tony Abbott, who’s promoting same sex marriage, an issue that is giving the Opposition leader grief, while she remains one…
Preferences are the auxiliary batteries of politics. They give an extra boost to supplement parties’ and candidates’ primary power supplies. Their bestowal or denial can make the difference between political…
Former ministers – those who backed Julia Gillard - are very “former” in this campaign. Some of them, such as Greg Combet and Craig Emerson - are heading for post-parliamentary life. Senator Stephen Conroy…
John Howard’s old seat of Bennelong as Australia’s Silicon Valley? That’s the pitch by Labor’s candidate Jason Yat-Sen Li. Labor is mostly in defensive mode in NSW but it is also on the hunt for a couple…
Tonight’s debate was not a debate. It was a joint news conference and a dull one at that. There was not the head-to-head exchanges and jousting that a genuine “debate” requires. There was no knock out…
In Melbourne the “Indi expats” number about 30. They include nieces and nephews of Cathy McGowan, independent candidate for the north east Victorian seat, and relatives of family and friends. The “Indi…
When leaders take on media moguls, it always makes for a spicy story. When the characters are Kevin Rudd and Rupert Murdoch, one hangs out for the next episode. In the Labor camp, a few people must be…