Jul 26, 2010 | Articles
For as long as I can remember, first term governments seeking re-election have had a clear agenda to take to an election and seek a mandate to implement. But this is not the case with the modern Labor Party. Labor seems to have delivered Australia its first...
Feb 2, 2010 | Articles
Spin doctors became infamous when, on September 11, 2001, during the horrific attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon, British Labour staffer Jo Moore send out an email encouraging her press office colleagues to release bad news stories, in the hope that they...
Dec 14, 2009 | Articles
It is often said the Labor Party glorifies its history, even its notable failures – and that is the only explanation that can be given for the glorification of the Whitlam Government, given it was tossed out in the biggest landslide in Australian history after only...
Nov 12, 2009 | Articles
In identifying the most revolutionary discovery or invention in human history we are confronted with a bewildering choice: from fire and the wheel, through to electricity, nuclear fission and the silicon chip. But one stands out. Simple in conception and design, but...
May 1, 2008 | Articles
Lifting the veil of health ‘stakeholders’… Earlier this year, the new Minister for Health referred to the need to ‘rebuild health services after the last decade of neglect’ as only 73.4 per cent of all Medicare services were being bulk-billed....
