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A private pessimism now a public despair

Michael Gordon For more than two years, Rod Cameron's pessimism about Labor's prospects has been a strictly private affair.

They look like Keystone Cops and the real test is still to come

Michael Gordon Julia Gillard has triumphed in her third party-room showdown with Kevin Rudd, but Tony Abbott is the biggest - the only - winner from one of the most bizarre days in Australia's political history.

Who would be in your (political) team of the century?

Michael Gordon The late John Button had his own strategy for coping with the tedium of Parliament during his years as the government leader in the Senate.

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Rudd's long cold shower heats up as leadership stress grows

Michael Gordon What's Kevin up to? It's the perennial question for those Labor MPs who voted for Julia Gillard in last year's leadership ballot, and for her advisers, but now it's being asked by some of Rudd's own...

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Ready, set go: Nova Peris happy to take the baton

Michael Gordon Fifteen years ago, when Nova Peris first confided an interest in entering the national Parliament, the leading indigenous advocate Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue was decidedly unimpressed.

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PM's captain's pick may end a sorry chapter in Labor history

Michael Gordon The long backstory to the PM using her 'captain's pick' to impose Nova Peris, an Olympic champion but a political novice, on Labor's NT branch helps explain why Warren Mundine was so quick to endorse...

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Everything is not all right, we're uptight, out of sight

Michael Gordon There are signs that both sides of politics are at least trying to inject a dose of confidence into the electorate.

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Tanner orchestrates his own Labor sideshow

Michael Gordon Lindsay Tanner's last book on politics explored the relationship between politicians and the media. It began with the observation that most journalists would scan the book, looking for shock...