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Junk food wrapper Abbott portrait wins art prize 18 Jul 2013 | 12:28 pm
Portrait of #tonyabbott made from junk food wrappers wins category in Warringah Art Exhibition http://bit.ly/15O9x0o pic.twitter.com/oatp5DbPhT
Will Rudd follow Miliband on party reform? 9 Jul 2013 | 02:59 pm
In organisational terms, the ALP has always been closer to the British Labour Party (BLP) than just about any other national political party. Both are 'labour' parties in the formal sense, meaning th...
Kerry Anne Walsh stalks the Canberra Press Gallery 7 Jul 2013 | 12:41 pm
Kerry-Anne Walsh, The Stalking of Julia Gillard: How the media and team Rudd brought down the prime minister There's a punch line here somewhere. Despite the title, the book suggests that the autho....
Will Rudd rescue the ALP? 2 Jul 2013 | 10:21 am
The ALP faces an existential crisis. Rudd's resurrection is a desperate last throw of the dice for a party struggling for relevance in the second decade of the 21st century. The last prime minister ...
Old mates squabble, unions get nervous and academics hedge against an Abbott landslide 19 Jun 2013 | 04:16 am
As the ship heads towards the rocks, it's payback time. Here the long-term battle between two former AMWU officials (George Campbell and Doug Cameron) gets an airing, along with some more public airin...
More media coverage of the ALP's dysfunctional structure 13 Jun 2013 | 02:07 am
Note: My thesis on the changing relationship between unions and the ALP has passed 1750 reads on Scribd. From Alan Stokes at Fairfax: It was telling on Tuesday when she(Gillard) said: ''I am the best ...
Rudd and unions: a world apart 11 Jun 2013 | 10:54 am
The interviews for my doctoral thesis on the changing relationship between unions and the ALP were conducted during the days when Rudd was riding high as PM, even then there was evidence of a schism t...
Rudd and unions: a world apart 11 Jun 2013 | 10:54 am
The interviews for my doctoral thesis on the changing relationship between unions and the ALP were conducted during the days when Rudd was riding high as PM, even then there was evidence of a schism t...
One big happy team under a resurrected Rudd? No way. 11 Jun 2013 | 07:51 am
The last leadership challenge by Rudd in February 2012 was brutal. A lot of people in the ALP believe that Rudd deliberately undermined Gillard's campaign in the 2010 election. A lot tof the hatred of...
One big happy team under a resurrected Rudd? No way. 11 Jun 2013 | 07:51 am
The last leadership challenge by Rudd in February 2012 was brutal. A lot of people in the ALP believe that Rudd deliberately undermined Gillard's campaign in the 2010 election. A lot tof the hatred of...
