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Friday, 29 August 2008 64
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Good evening everyone. I’m pleased that so many of my friends could make it along this evening.
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 20
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Nelson and Costello sat apart from their Labor colleagues, exchanging discreet jokes and smiles, a touching scene. They look good together, writes Bernard Keane
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008 5
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About the only significant revelation from the 4 Corners Turnbull profile was what a luxuriant mop of hair he had back in the 1980s, writes Bernard Keane.
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Friday, 22 August 2008 4
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Never in the history of political conflict have so many waited for so few for so little, writes Bernard Keane.
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 3
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Today's Crikey poll reveals who Liberal Party HQ should be looking at for the leadership...
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Wednesday, 20 August 2008 3
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When it comes to summits the Liberals need to rethink their approach, writes Bernard Keane.
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Tuesday, 19 August 2008 4
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Now you can vote for the candidate best suited to lead Australian Liberals back to the Treasury benches.
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Wednesday, 6 August 2008 10
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Peter Costello could have a chance of becoming Prime Minister. But he'll need to line up his ducks with care, writes Peter Brent.
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Monday, 4 August 2008 23
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The press has played a central role in leadership struggles before, but an Opposition party in thrall to a book deal? Weird, writes Bernard Keane.
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Monday, 4 August 2008 6
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In one the most implausible political transformations of our time, Peter Costello, the unpopular former Treasurer, is now seen as saviour his party, writes Mungo MacCallum.
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Friday, 1 August 2008 26
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It’s fair to say that, despite the best efforts of News Ltd editors, the common view in the press gallery has been that Costello left politics the day after the 2007 election, it’s just that he hasn’t got around to checking out yet. Bernard Keane muses on Costellogy.
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 16
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More Hamlet than Macbeth, Peter Costello doesn't seem to be sticking to The Australian's preferred script, writes Bernard Keane.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 14
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It's only natural that thoughts, in this long Canberra winter, should turn to leadership, writes Bernard Keane.
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008 2
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There are words for the all the Peter Costello speculation. One of them is "silly". The other one starts with "s" too, writes Possum Comitatus.
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Thursday, 10 July 2008 5
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Does Brendan Nelson actually understand his own party's ETS position? Bernard Keane is not sure.
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 19
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Nelson was riding high – well, much higher than he had been – on petrol and Belinda Neal. But Tuesday’s Newspoll messed that right up, writes Bernard Keane.
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008 14
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There we were expecting the new Government’s first bad opinion poll. Didn't happen, though The Oz's Dennis Shanahan made the best of a bad situation, writes Bernard Keane.
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008 14
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Five years and literally uncounted tens of thousands of Iraqi dead later, a Labor Government is withdrawing our troops and the best the Coalition can do is mumble about the job not being done, writes Bernard Keane.
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Wednesday, 28 May 2008 7
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Oh the humanity! Wheelchairs! Twenty-year-old Mitsubishis! Processed sausages! Bredan "Emo Man" Nelson was at his angsty finest in Question Time yesterday, writes Bernard Keane.
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 5
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Despite the breathless reports of who leaked what to whom and why, it’s time to take a step back from the Nelson-Turnbull business and put it in perspective, writes Bernard Keane.
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Monday, 19 May 2008 16
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What looks very much like Turnbull-camp leaking has killed off hard-won Liberal momentum, writes Bernard Keane.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008 0
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Snookered – it’s the only way to describe what the ALP has done to the Coalition writes Possum Comitatus.
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 8
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Nelson is, by common consent, finished. So let’s turn to the future. Bernard Keane investigates the Liberal Party's options.
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 2
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Claims in the Weekend Australian that Liberal Senate leader Nick Minchin "swore at Malcolm Turnbull during an ugly public clash over leadership tensions" are "a lie and defamatory," according to a memo circulated to Liberal Senators and MPs by Minchin, writes Christian Kerr.
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 6
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Malcolm Turnbull has been a very successful business person, but did he really mean to share some secrets of wealth creation yesterday? Christian Kerr investigates.
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 0
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There’s no real surprise in the voting intention or preferred prime minister figures in the first Newspoll for the year. Indeed, they are academic. Still, opposition leader Brendan Nelson can draw heart from his approval rating, writes Christian Kerr.
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 3
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We constantly hear about the Nelson Opposition requiring only a 2.7% swing to regain government. While this is unarguably true in a uniform sense, the simplicity of such a statement belies the actual danger lurking below the quaint headline, writes Possum Comitatus.
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007 5
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Who should be leader of the opposition? Perhaps we should first ask why anyone would want the job?