Tag: Julia Gillard

• Journalism After Murdoch : What Now?

  Amazing! My inbox changed again! That hadn’t happened for at least 45 seconds. But this time the email was actually interesting. In the first place, it wasn’t spam and secondly, it concerned a subject of interest to me: journalism. While not a journalist, I’m a writer, and my keen interest came from a close observation…

  Andrew Whalan

  May 13, 2015

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• The Boring ALP Leadership Soap Opera!

  Yet again I turn to the political section of the newspaper. Yet again I feel I am reading the script of a soap opera. But the same scene and same dialogue is being replayed. More stories on the Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard leadership crisis! Should Kevin be leader instead of Julia? Should some one…

  Andrew Whalan

  March 11, 2013

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  Australian Labor Party, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Michelle Grattan, Peter Hartcher, Politics, Series Stories, Soap opera

• How To Apologise

  In the light of Alan Jones’s comments, I want to add my own. But not on what he said about Julia Gillard. Many people have commented on that. I want to turn my attention to his apology. I don’t think it was really an apology. And why? I found out the hard way how to…

  Andrew Whalan

  September 30, 2012

  Personal

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• The Why Is Missing from Politics….

  The Why Is Missing Today in politics we had a Prime Minister reelected overwhelmingly by her party. The former Foreign Minister is now vanquished and will eventually shuffle off into the political night. Such is politics. Like many people, I was left wondering why. Why did Julia Gillard defeat Kevin Rudd the first time? Why…

  Andrew Whalan

  February 27, 2012

  Opinions

  Foreign Minister, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Politics, Prime minister, Twitter