Labor Party
Paul Sheehan
Abbott suffering a Labor Party stoning
Paul Sheehan Tony Abbott is a hack. A dog. An aggressive, carping, bitter, mindless, deceptive, dodgy, mendacious, rancid, negative, nasty, muck-raking, untruthful, obstructionist, opportunistic, sexist,...
Gay marriage: the political knot it's impossible to untie
Jacqueline Maley Last week, I spied a peculiar photograph accompanying a newspaper story about the legalisation of gay marriage and adoption in France.
Rudd deserves benefit of doubt on gay marriage backflip
Stephanie Peatling Kevin Rudd has joined the ranks of politicians who have changed their mind on same sex marriage.
Constitutional change makes sense
George Williams Australia's first referendum in 14 years promises a small, but significant change to the Constitution.
Abbott cares for mums, but why so little support?
Jacqueline Maley Opposition Leader Tony Abbott may well be a misogynist. He might be plotting to scrap abortion rights. He might truly believe that women are not temperamentally suited to leadership roles.
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Combet blasts ALP whingers
Chris Johnson Senior cabinet minister Greg Combet has attacked some of his Labor Party colleagues as ''whingers'' in an angry and expletive-laden speech to supporters and donors, expressing his frustration at...
Something has been broken at the heart of politics
Tony Wright Late last month, a woman stood alone on the forecourt of Canberra's Parliament House, inhaling gulps of cigarette smoke. ''All very nice,'' she said. ''Too late. Tomorrow it'll be wrapping chips.''
Triple-F for Labor in convincing voters of budget credibility
Mark Kenny The federal government's political skills are again being exposed as slipshod amid a messy prelude to a pre-election budget.
Simon says: Labor's listing
Peter Hartcher Simon Crean has said that Labor can't win the federal election as the party now stands, and he is behaving accordingly - as if there is nothing to lose.
PM is missing the point about class warfare
Peter Hartcher Today's poll confirms that the Gillard government remains on track to lose the election due in 153 days. It also shows that one of its main escape plans is not working.
Plans to attack the rich getting dumber and dumber
Amanda Vanstone Like it or not, capitalism is the best way to help Australia grow and prosper as a nation.
Political thriller be damned, Bowen's going to save Labor instead
Tony Wright Chris Bowen's publishers, you'd imagine, are hoping he can write better than he can count. Finding himself with unexpected time on his hands over the past weeks, Bowen has been busily scribbling a...
High tide for women ministers
Anne Summers When she announced her new ministry last Monday, Julia Gillard made history. For the first time, women make up one-third of the Australian government.
Policy, not gender, will decide Gillard's fate at ballot box
Gerard Henderson If Julia Gillard's supporters really believe the Prime Minister's political discontents are due to prevailing misogyny in a contemporary patriarchal society, they are delusional.
Beware the hungry sharks circling in Abbott's moat
Jack Waterford In the Labor Party, they have been called tree people. The Liberals once did not have them, as such, but now also maintains a veritable forest.
Clashes over ideology key to Labor's ructions
Lindy Edwards It impoverishes our politics when we are told political meltdowns are about nothing but personality.
The policy tussle Labor should have had sooner
Jacqueline Maley Now that the leadership boil has been lanced, Labor is still arguing, but at least they're arguing about policy, right?
Super tactic: fight the enemy, press the facts
Jacqueline Maley What does it mean to be ''fabulously wealthy'' and how does one achieve it? When I was at university it meant ''anyone who owns a car''.
Without hated red tape, we'd be in a bigger tangle
Lenore Taylor It's time to call out the incredible hypocrisy of politicians banging on about tape. And also the way politics is trumping policy on an almost daily basis.
Crackdown a threat to jobs Gillard claims to be protecting
Amanda Vanstone Julia Gillard's crackdown on 457 visas is symbolic and symptomatic of every problem dogging the Labor Party. It is bound to the unions, divided, deceptive and desperate.
