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If you wanted to get a quick update on the various schools of analysis after the release of the Australian Labor Government 2011 Federal Budget here are some short extracts and links to pieces representatives of the major camps in the [...]
On election night 25 Nov 2007 Australian Labor leader Kevin Rudd put an end to 11 ½ years of conservative government standing on a stage by the words “new leadership, fresh ideas”. A year later in November 2008 Barack Obama also ended a decade of neo-conservatism in the US. He too had an emphatic message [...]
@DrSophie73 posted a link to a very interesting paper in the context of a conversation started by Ben Eltham’s New Matilda piece on what Australian Labor actually stands for. The question being whether, in the end, we should not put such high expectations on parties, and whether deliberative democracy supplants party platforms.
The paper co-authored in 2004 by [...]
You all did love him once, not without cause
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In some respect, the political assassination of Kevin Rudd was executed like a reality TV show.
Millions of viewers watched live on prime time TV political correspondents turning into a bunch of Iron Chef Commentators: “skuza! [...]
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