Victoria Rollison's Blog, page 23

Letting the ‘narrative’ win

It’s not often that I see my mum, Kay Rollison, as angry as she was on Thursday. I too was furious at the behavior of the Labor Party. I could probably write a book about all the reasons, but I thought it might be useful (and perhaps cathartic), to home in on the strongest reason [...]

An Open Letter to Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd

Dear Julia and Kevin, Sorry to address you both informally by your first names, but I’m assuming I’d start off on the wrong foot if I wrote this letter to the Prime Minister and Kevin. And the relationship between you is what I’m writing about. It’s time to get over the sensitivities and to unite [...]

An Open Letter to Michelle Grattan

Dear Michelle Grattan I’m writing to congratulate you on your new job as Professorial Fellow at University of Canberra and your other new job – Associate Editor (Politics) and Chief Political Correspondent at The Conversation. I couldn’t help but notice that your article on your new platform this week, Gillard and Baillieu offer stark contrast, was no different [...]

Interesting Conflicts of Interest

My mum, Kay Rollison, is now blogging under her own name on the Australian Independent Media Network and is also guest blogging on this blog. Here is her latest: In a recent post, I noted that the final report of the Queensland Audit Commission, chaired by Peter Costello, had recommended a ‘sell everything’ approach to [...]

Nothing to lose

The Labor party has everything to lose. Come September, not only could they lose the Federal election, but also many of the hard fought progressive reforms that they’ve implemented over the past two terms. It’s getting to the point where every poll report, every news item and every taxi driver in the country has already [...]

Privatisation: Coming to Public Schools and Hospitals Near You

Here is @KayRollison’s latest rant, I mean, post. Usually it’s nice to be proved right – but not when you’re proved right about something as bad as this. I’ve been saying for some time that an Abbott government would have a much more right wing, neoliberal, or just plain nasty agenda than some people seem [...]

Does a blood oath fade in the wash?

Here is another great contribution from guest blogger Kay Rollison. Enjoy! As Labor does poorly in recent polls, we’ve started to hear a new line that is a version of an old one – it doesn’t matter if Tony Abbott wins, because he won’t do anything different. This comes from the cynics – the ‘we’ve [...]

Opinion Poll Opinion

I know the mainstream media is only interested in polls owned by Rupert and any other poll, however obscure, they can dredge up that has a bad outcome for Labor. But there are other polls for those who look. I’ve found a credible, representative poll which I don’t think has got anywhere near enough attention. [...]

What Gillard is up against (continued …)

This post is another fabulous guest post by Kay Rollison, my mother.  I’m following up on Victoria’s recent post on what Gillard is up against. Two pieces on the Drum on Thursday 21 February nicely illustrate a couple more of the sorts of attack that Gillard faces. Both articles, though they appear to be something [...]

What Gillard is up against

If I were the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, I’d get to the point quite often where I would feel the need to vent about the number of hurdles I would need to jump just to get anything done. When you keep in mind that Gillard is rather good at getting things done, I think she [...]