The Australian 25 January 2013
There has been a bit of a perception that Tony has been somewhat negative during his time as Opposition Leader, but that is apparently all going to change (paywalled link). Now look, I don’t want to continue in a negative vein, but, well, hmmm.
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The Australian 13 November 2012
Voters turn off Abbott: Newspoll (paywalled link)
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The Australian 22 June 2012
All in all, the census seems to show Australia’s doing quite well as a matter of fact.
Much to our surprise.
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The Australian 18 July 2011
Today we discovered that Peter Reith’s post-mortem of the Liberals’ election effort last year suggested that a bit of policy might not go amiss. Now this bothered me, firstly because he needed to be asked, and secondly because Peter felt it needed to be said.
If anyone were to ask me (though as you’ll shortly discover I’m hoping they don’t) the whole watching-the-polls, focus-group-testing, policy-selling, don’t-piss-off-the-western-suburbs-of-Sydney frenzy has just about reached its use-by date.
There’s nothing wrong with trying to find out what the great unwashed think, but when you get right down to it, you’ll probably find out that we think the people we elected to run the place should get on with running the place and we’ll explain exactly how we feel about how they went come the next election.
I know this rant is a gross oversimplification and has holes you could drive a truck through, which is exactly why the stupid politicians shouldn’t base their stupid policies on what the stupid public thinks which just magnifies the stupidity in an enormous stupidity feedback loop. Just get on with it, and if you bugger it up at least you’ll have buggered it up on your own terms.
The Australian, 4 August 2010