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If I were Tony Abbott, I would be carefully listening to doctors’ whinges about medical insurance.
In America, the political scientists are trying to attract the NASCAR dads—the sort of guys who are fans of racing cars. ‘NASCAR dads’ was once used to describe small-town and rural men.
By any standards it seems a fine kettle of fish. Most of the intelligence gathered by two of the best-equipped nations on earth seems to have been false.
Mark Latham is doing far better than anyone expected. No one had particular faith in him, but the signs, so far, are good.
John Howard and Alexander Downer do Australia no favours in suggesting that to place Australia’s interests ahead of those of the United States, is proof of anti-Americanism or unsound policy.
Jack Waterford examines the widening range of problems facing John Howard as jets over to visit George W. Bush for the seventh time in six years.
Aboriginal affairs has moved a long way since John Howard won office in 1996, though whether forwards or backwards is arguable.
It is worth contemplating the dismal failures of conservative coalitions at state level while John Howard’s star has increased, and his own revolutionary shifts in the federal compact.
John Howard has done more than enough to deserve to lose the next election by a wide margin. The polls indicate that he probably will. Yet he remains a slight favourite in the betting.
In theory, the stage is set. An election could be as early as August, more likely October.
Most of the election so far has proven to be a referendum on whether we could endure having John Howard back.
When Labor marched to defeat in 2001, it is thought that more than half of the paid-up members of the party voted for the Greens.
25-36 out of 45 results.