One-vote buffer will make reforms hard
JULIA Gillard has won the tightest election in Australia’s political history by the smallest possible margin.
JULIA Gillard has won the tightest election in Australia’s political history by the smallest possible margin.
THE PM shows her negotiating skills in the joust to form government.
THAT the ALP has entered into an alliance with the Greens to stay in office is a measure of Labor’s weakness and desperation.
QUENTIN Bryce must avoid activist precedents set in Tasmania.
THIS week Julia Gillard revealed her toughness in appeasement.
IT is by no means clear that Australia can form stable and effective government in the hung parliament.
AUSTRALIA confronts the palpable fear of weak government as the 2010 battle between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott has intensified.
THE ‘dead-heat’ election means Australia now faces a period of instability and potentially weak government unprecedented since World War Two.
ANY Tony Abbott election victory will herald a rewriting of the laws of Australian politics.
JULIA Gillard says she is prepared to legislate a carbon price in the next term.
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