2008 is off to a very interesting start. Although I don’t formally take up my position until 1 July, I was invited to the opening of Parliament, which turned out to be a far more moving experience than usual.
On Saturday 24 November 2007, the thirteen and a half million enrolled Australians wrote the Howard Government into history. Not just a mild rebuke, but one of the most delightfully unambiguous electoral demolition jobs our country has ever seen.
in a state veering between high anxiety and flaky exhaustion, one last appeal for hands on deck…
All year, the Prime Minister has been waiting for another Tampa to sail over the horizon and provide the Government with a trigger for the same ruthlessly effective campaign themes we saw in 2001.
The Day Howard Called the Election… the crew convened spontaneously at the office.
Handed control of both houses of Parliament, the Prime Minister swerved hard right and gave a textbook demonstration of what ‘power corrupts’ means.