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Planet Irf (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Back in May 1995, I was one of 200-odd Liberals sitting on what was without a doubt the preselection of the year. Former AMA President Dr Brendan Nelson took on the Opposition’s spokesman on superannuation and retirement incomes, David Connelly, in the federal seat of Bradfield, a seat Connelly had held for years. Some weeks before the preselection, Nelson had kept me on the phone...
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Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... of leaks to The Australian . Malcolm Turnbull and the rest of the Libs should also recall that Brendan Nelson was brought down as much by the constant dripfeed of negative stories to their mates in the press gallery, as by his own hapless efforts as Leader. What is now being done to Bishop (and the articles have been cleverly framed to keep the “narrative” alive for quite a while...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Liberal MPs are becoming frustrated with Ms Bishop's errors and her inability to have any impact on Treasurer Wayne Swan, who is seen as Labor's weakest link in the leadership group, since she switched from workplace relations to Treasury three months ago. When Malcolm Turnbull moved from Treasury spokesman to the Leader of the Opposition to replace Brendan Nelson, Ms Bishop asked for...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Liberal MPs are becoming frustrated with Ms Bishop's errors and her inability to have any impact on Treasurer Wayne Swan, who is seen as Labor's weakest link in the leadership group, since she switched from workplace relations to Treasury three months ago, . When Malcolm Turnbull moved from Treasury spokesman to Opposition Leader to replace Brendan Nelson, Ms Bishop asked for the Treasury...
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News Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... Take this latest example involving a Four Corners profile of Malcolm Turnbull in the dying days of Brendan Nelson's Opposition leadership. The leader-in-waiting refused to be interviewed, but there were enough glimpses of a testy Turnbull to suggest he had strong views about the show. To test that thesis, and to see if he had shared his opinions with the ABC, we submitted a FoI request...
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
A DROVER'S dog would do a better job of gaining political ground than NSW's Opposition Leader.
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Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
The media clearly likes Malcolm Turnbull more than it liked Brendan Nelson. So why are the Liberals doing no better under their new leader in…
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Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Newspoll has Labor on 55% 2PP (up 1 point, within the MOE). Kevin Rudd is on 62% (up 3) on the PPM to Malcolm Turnbull’s 22% (down 3). Brendan Nelson peaked at 16%. The Opposition Organ says: But it remains substantially higher than his predecessor Brendan Nelson. How substantial is substantial, I wonder? (more…)
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The Australian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... led the Coalition, is the Rudd Labor Government being held to greater account than it was under Brendan Nelson? True, voters seem to be rallying around the Rudd Government in the face of an international and domestic financial crisis, but Turnbull's standing as preferred prime minister in Newspoll, and his approval rating as Opposition Leader, is high. The comparison between Labor...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
TELSTRA appears safe from any split of its retail and networks arms, with the federal Coalition's new communications spokesman, Nick Minchin, ruling out any such move and distancing himself from the previous policy under Brendan Nelson's leadership.The Government has already ruled out structural separation as part of its troubled project to inject $4.7 billion in taxpayer funds into a...
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Larvatus Prodeo (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... on for the editor of Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead , Peter Van Onselen, as it emerged that Brendan Nelson’s chapter had been ghosted by Tom Switzer, whose ruminations turned up in a column under his own name in The Spectator : “It must have been subconscious … I have just regurgitated [what] was my line.” Pushing a “line”, of course, comes naturally to the opinionistas of the...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
The catch is that only one of those pictured on the cover, Tony Abbott, is entirely responsible for the words. It turns out that the chapter under the name of the former leader Brendan Nelson, sketching the "future directions for the Liberal Party", was substantially produced by his speechwriter, Tom Switzer.
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kevgillett.net (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
... as part of the Howard Government’s acquisition of the new Abrams tanks,” then-defence minister Brendan Nelson said in a statement in September last year. Fitzgibbon spins faster; “However, it must be done in a fiscally responsible fashion and the organisations involved must be fully aware of the facts that the now opposition deliberately failed to inform them of,” he said. The organizations...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
... urged the Government to delay the introduction of the scheme. The former leader of the Opposition, Brendan Nelson, lost his authority within the Coalition when he was rolled in shadow cabinet over the suggestion the Opposition should take a tougher stand against an emissions trading scheme. Dr Nelson said in July the Coalition's greenhouse gas plan would not be popular but...
