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Australian Politics - 2012

The people, not caucus, must decide

by Julie Bishop - 23/02/2012 - 36 comments

The Carr that skittled Kevin

by Richard Laidlaw - 6/03/2012 - 15 comments

Changing Black Jack rules

by Chris Lewis - 22/03/2012 - 13 comments

Life after Brown for the Greens?

by Robert Simms - 19/04/2012 - 10 comments

Underperforming government should be afraid

by Sev Ozdowski - 26/06/2012 - 4 comments

NSW Right trying to lead Labor straight off a cliff

by Patrick Baume - 16/07/2012 - 5 comments

All eyes on Bligh-Newman showdown

by Scott Prasser - 10/01/2012 - 4 comments

Broken promises

by Helen Pringle - 28/03/2012 - 18 comments

What does 'growth' in the 'Asian Century' even mean?

by Charles Berger - 2/11/2012 - 10 comments

Turnaround Tony

by Scott Prasser - 12/11/2012 - 23 comments

PM's identity crisis on education

by Kevin Donnelly - 22/08/2012 - 3 comments

NSW local government elections: has western Sydney turned right?

by Fred Fuentes - 19/09/2012

No easy answers on GMH subsidy

by Malcolm King - 22/10/2012 - 7 comments

Wilkie has crossed a thin line

by Malcolm Mackerras - 31/01/2012 - 13 comments

Carrots rather than sticks

by John Töns - 6/03/2012 - 13 comments

Social reasons for legalising gay marriage

by Valerie Yule - 1/06/2012 - 36 comments

Regulation changes won't fix super flaws

by Nicholas Gruen - 18/12/2012

Why are we deafened by the silence?

by Greg Donnelly - 19/09/2012 - 17 comments

Left’s love lost for Labor

by Chrys Stevenson - 27/03/2012 - 33 comments

Slippery politics trumps conventions

by James English - 2/05/2012 - 9 comments

The Iron Lady wins twice: Hollywood imitates Australian politics

by Evelyn Tsitas - 2/03/2012 - 11 comments

Santa set to be the only traveller not waiting in airport queues this Christmas

by Michael Keenan - 24/12/2012 - 1 comment

Structural change in Australian politics

by Peter McMahon - 17/08/2012 - 20 comments

Politicians unintentionally adding to the noise

by Kevin Hawkins - 12/04/2012 - 6 comments

Rudd: crashing not crashing through

by Jo Coghlan and Scott Denton - 27/02/2012 - 28 comments

Gillard's time bomb bid to duchess business leaders

by Malcolm Colless - 9/03/2012 - 8 comments

Queensland election result and fiscal policy

by Mikayla Novak - 28/03/2012 - 9 comments

Bob Brown: A legacy of principle

by Jo Coghlan - 16/04/2012 - 4 comments

Learning how to be better fathers

by Peter West - 10/12/2012 - 3 comments

Gillard was wrong, but we don't care

by Graham Young - 13/12/2012 - 73 comments

Government should not divert foreign aid

by Rebecca Barber - 24/12/2012 - 32 comments

Smash’n’run or reform with care: local government in NSW

by Robert Gibbons - 20/09/2012 - 1 comment

Myths, politics, and Leadbeater’s Possum

by Mark Poynter - 29/10/2012 - 8 comments

Labor's predicament: an opinion

by Chris Lewis - 14/05/2012 - 11 comments

Can do and ought to do

by Noel Preston - 22/05/2012 - 11 comments

Civil unions: Campbell Newman’s conundrum

by Bernard Gaynor - 25/05/2012 - 16 comments

Labor Right rant fails the fact test

by Jim McDonald - 10/07/2012 - 15 comments

Premier could care a bit more

by Scott Prasser - 7/02/2012 - 3 comments

Time for the ALP to learn some politics

by Patrick Baume - 21/02/2012 - 1 comment

Challenges for Real Bob Carr

by Julie Bishop - 8/03/2012 - 18 comments

It's not Hoyle, but it's not complete havoc either

by Richard Stanton - 4/06/2012

Rainbow revolution: why Mitt Romney's defeat is bad news for Tony Abbott

by Robert Simms - 13/11/2012 - 9 comments

Voting for the unloved

by Richard Stanton - 6/09/2012 - 3 comments

Malcolm in the middle

by Robert Simms - 23/10/2012 - 21 comments

John Howard's dishonour

by Stuart Rees - 4/01/2012 - 74 comments

A real states' house

by Chris Ashton - 17/02/2012 - 4 comments

What Merit in defeating the republican referendum?

by Bruce Haigh - 16/01/2012 - 5 comments

Media to blame for scripted, stage-managed politics

by Malcolm Cole - 1/03/2012 - 4 comments

Think our political debate is tanking? Ask the s(c)eptic celebs

by Kevin Rennie - 24/02/2012 - 12 comments

Lessons from history for Alan Jones and 2GB

by Alan Austin - 10/10/2012 - 84 comments

Abbott on the edge

by Bruce Haigh - 26/10/2012 - 18 comments

Julia Gillard has a case to answer

by Anthony Cox - 3/12/2012 - 103 comments

It’s time for a free trade agreement with Tasmania

by Andrew Baker - 14/08/2012 - 10 comments

Electricity price increases: gold plating or carbon dating?

by Anthony Cox - 16/08/2012 - 50 comments

Where Queensland sits on the political Richter scale

by Paul Williams - 4/04/2012 - 8 comments

Enough to make a liberal weep

by David Leyonhjelm - 20/04/2012 - 6 comments

Sympathy for the dodgy salesmen of Australian politics

by Zac Alstin - 13/06/2012 - 4 comments

Pokies reform: Gillard pushing private over public interests

by Matthew Holloway - 2/02/2012 - 1 comment

Cubbie throws Nationals a lifeline

by Matthew Holloway - 13/09/2012 - 15 comments

The Greens and social welfare

by Philip Mendes - 8/10/2012 - 13 comments

It’s time for Julia Gillard to go

by Tess Lawrence - 7/02/2012 - 29 comments

In defence of Smith

by Gary Brown - 15/03/2012 - 14 comments

The house that Bob Brown built

by Terry Flew - 17/04/2012 - 27 comments

Thomson vote affair turns spotlight on the Liberals

by Jo Coghlan - 12/06/2012 - 6 comments

Greens and Labor slug it out over preferences in Melbourne by-election

by Jo Coghlan - 23/07/2012 - 8 comments

De-regulating free-range labelling

by Stephen Keim and Jordan Sosnowski - 5/11/2012 - 9 comments

Whitlam and his public service demons

by J R Nethercote - 2/10/2012

On Gillard's 'Jack the Ripper' card

by Ben-Peter Terpstra - 19/10/2012 - 10 comments

It’s about more than education in the 3Rs

by Pamela Weatherill - 12/03/2012

The Convergence Review: regulation of media and Internet content

by Martyn Taylor - 15/05/2012 - 1 comment

Homophobia: a litmus test of social morality

by Noel Preston - 27/06/2012 - 10 comments

The case for Kevin

by Dilan Thampapillai - 24/02/2012 - 34 comments

The Liberal National Party's ancestor: the Country and Progressive National Party

by David Moore - 16/03/2012 - 1 comment

A green tinge is common sense

by Richard Laidlaw - 16/04/2012 - 11 comments

Rational argument and coercion have no place in Australian society

by Richard Stanton - 11/06/2012 - 2 comments

Recognition of local government: Now or never

by Jieh-Yung Lo - 12/06/2012 - 6 comments

Gillard's compromise, Turnbull's Kadima

by Tom Clark - 11/07/2012 - 36 comments

Julia Gillard's collapse in authority

by Julie Bishop - 13/12/2012 - 26 comments

Beyond the Queensland budget

by Ross Elliott - 19/09/2012 - 1 comment

Fighting Ferguson's dump

by Natalie Wasley - 22/03/2012 - 11 comments

Gillard: duplicity is only the start of her shortcomings

by Mirko Bagaric - 30/01/2012 - 38 comments

Can we trust ASIO?

by Sasha Uzunov - 9/02/2012 - 13 comments

Democratic dysfunction in thumping Queensland result

by Crispin Hull - 2/04/2012 - 61 comments

When did we become the stupid country?

by Naomi Anderson - 31/05/2012 - 23 comments

The letter of the law

by David Russell - 31/05/2012 - 10 comments

Finkelstein, AGW and the Coalition

by Anthony Cox - 24/07/2012 - 79 comments

Tony Abbott: a sheep in wolf's clothing

by Bruce Haigh - 1/02/2012 - 139 comments

Abbott's 7:30 interview and fantasy politics

by Dominic Kelly - 31/08/2012 - 15 comments

Political leaders don’t have the time for babies

by Cassandra Wilkinson - 2/02/2012 - 9 comments

Queensland: three seats in doubt

by Tracey Arklay - 2/04/2012 - 9 comments

Accessions to power: are women prime ministers different?

by Jocelynne Scutt - 29/05/2012 - 19 comments

The rise of the political footy fan

by Benjamin Jones - 12/07/2012

Unions and the ALP: building a broader community connection

by Trevor Cook - 17/07/2012 - 1 comment

Turnbull is an underutilised asset

by Malcolm Colless - 13/04/2012 - 19 comments

The power and the glory: Australia’s politicians face an upheaval

by Everald Compton - 4/05/2012 - 4 comments

Too clever by half and not clever enough

by Graham Young - 9/05/2012 - 43 comments

The irony of the ACTU's defence of the ALP

by Jo Coghlan and Scott Denton - 18/05/2012 - 8 comments

What the Melbourne by-election tells the Greens

by Ronan Lee - 1/08/2012 - 8 comments

Winning not lecturing

by Graham Young - 22/10/2012 - 21 comments

Australia has been Asian since Gondwana

by John Harrison - 1/11/2012 - 3 comments

Turning back the boats - back to the future on asylum policy

by Adam Fletcher - 1/02/2012 - 25 comments

Imposing their own prejudices

by Chris Lewis - 14/03/2012 - 22 comments

Bruce Hawker passes the Labor baton to Mark Arbib

by Ian Wallace - 27/03/2012

Without oil, modern civilisation doesn’t work

by Mark O'Connor - 30/04/2012 - 107 comments

Is growth making a come back?

by Ross Elliott - 4/05/2012 - 22 comments

From California to Canberra: the real class war

by John Muscat - 11/06/2012 - 14 comments

Risky business: war on the Greens will hurt Labor

by Robert Simms - 16/07/2012 - 15 comments

A touch of cultural diversity in politics

by Jieh-Yung Lo - 11/01/2012 - 11 comments

Forget the wing - put Abbott at five-eighth

by Richard Stanton - 16/01/2012 - 8 comments

Criticism should be based on fact

by Chris Lewis - 16/02/2012 - 20 comments

Defence policy: in what direction after Afghanistan?

by Andrew Farran - 26/04/2012 - 3 comments

It's time shooters grew up

by Tony Smith - 15/06/2012 - 19 comments

Refugee children vulnerable to online predators

by Teresa Gambaro - 29/10/2012 - 4 comments

Tammy Franks ten-year time out on tax

by Malcolm King - 17/10/2012 - 9 comments

A delusion of grandeur: Kevin Rudd in politics

by Marko Beljac - 5/03/2012 - 7 comments

All-time low for Australia’s press

by Alan Austin - 7/03/2012 - 59 comments

The cost of Gillard's war

by John Pilger - 12/03/2012 - 9 comments

Refugee boats: a plane distraction

by William Bourke - 23/05/2012 - 37 comments

Pure Greens? Not!

by Greg Donnelly - 31/05/2012 - 5 comments

The regressive progressive: ALP future bound by its past

by Brenton Luxton - 2/03/2012 - 27 comments

Can the Democrats come back?

by Kathryn Crosby - 24/07/2012 - 29 comments

Whatever happens don’t work together

by Bruce Haigh - 18/09/2012 - 4 comments

Fabricators and the fact checking fad

by Alan Austin - 20/11/2012 - 55 comments

Tasmanian Greens hedge their bets

by Matthew Holloway - 25/01/2012 - 1 comment

Eclipsing the religious right

by Rodney Croome - 4/05/2012 - 91 comments

The 'Malaysia solution': has its time now come?

by Clive Kessler - 27/06/2012 - 55 comments

No Moore for Sydney

by Jonathan J. Ariel - 3/08/2012

2012: the Australian Situation

by Peter McMahon - 16/01/2012 - 11 comments

Unemployment 101: It’s time to get REAL

by Jonathan J. Ariel - 22/02/2012 - 16 comments

What would our kids think?

by Arron Wood - 1/03/2012 - 5 comments

New Start to a dead end

by John Hasenkam - 24/10/2012 - 5 comments

The first shot fired in the War on Pokies

by Melody Ayres-Griffiths - 10/02/2012 - 1 comment

Live by Big Brother, die by Big Brother

by Graham Young - 28/02/2012 - 15 comments

2012 Budget: no votes in foreign aid

by Jo Coghlan - 9/05/2012 - 34 comments

History with a soft focus

by Graham Young - 20/07/2012 - 14 comments

The intergalactic musings of Senator Bob Brown

by Babette Francis - 16/04/2012 - 10 comments

Is Abbott the conservatives' liability?

by Malcolm Colless - 30/10/2012 - 54 comments

A matter of interest

by Graham Young - 13/11/2012 - 5 comments

The state of play in federal politics

by Jo Coghlan - 10/12/2012 - 10 comments

Mr Abbott and women voters

by Don Aitkin - 11/10/2012 - 14 comments

The real misogyny

by Babette Francis - 16/10/2012 - 22 comments

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