Kevin Rudd has returned to form, using large sums of public money to defuse a troublesome situation, and it appears the Labor Party is right behind him. A veteran Labor figure speaking with...
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Max Walsh, 25 July 2013, The Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
The ALP's Faustian bargain with our born-again Prime Minister could bring out the worst in a leader with a history of egocentrism. I wonder whether the Labor Party comprehends all the...
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Max Walsh, 18 July 2013, The Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
Australia's future outlook changed in late June, but it had less to do with the change in leadership than with the change in China's economy. You do not need particularly acute...
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Max Walsh, 11 July 2013, The Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
That Kevin Rudd has the ability to run an unusually emotional election campaign should be giving the Abbott camp the jitters. Do not dismiss the surge by Kevin Rudd and the Labor Party in...
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Max Walsh, 4 July 2013, The Australian Financial Review
While Tony Abbott is likely to win a majority in the lower house in the September poll, the Coalition is unlikely to have control of the Senate. Kevin Rudd's disavowal of any further...
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Max Walsh, 28 March 2013, The Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
How would our political landscape look if Kevin Rudd had survived the prime ministerial coup in 2010? Like John Howard, I believe Rudd would have won the election that year and would now be...
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Max Walsh, 21 March 2013, Australian Financial Review (subscription required)