A Step Backwards?
Looks like ALP campaign manager Tim Gartrell is out for more Liberal blood. He didn’t waste any time getting this website up, skewering newly-elected opposition leader Brendan Nelson’s positions on education, workplace reform and climate change. After Saturday’s rout, the new Liberal skipper is in for a rough ride. Here is Nelson on nuclear power:...
Federal Election ’07
Fireworks were set off in the street as John Howard mounted the podium for the last time, the ABC telecast symbolically interrupting Peter Costello’s own smirk-filled victory speech. But after Saturday night’s ‘Ruddslide’ even the treasurer’s smirk, that island in the sea of change that is Australian politics, is no more. With Liberal MPs falling...