Comments on: Compare and contrast

By: Club Troppo » The people’s chamber – you heard it first on Troppo

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:53:31 +0000

[...] I’ve argued recently and not so recently the Accord was a great success essentially because it performed that function. And I expect that [...]

By: Club Troppo » Strange bedfellows: dynamic tension

Club Troppo » Strange bedfellows: dynamic tension — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:34:57 +0000

[...] in the pre-recession Hawke/Keating years was a foundation of its success and argued as much in this essay for the AFR’s Friday Review in early 2008. They achieved something that looked exceedingly [...]

By: Club Troppo » Robert James Lee Gillard (here’s hoping)

Club Troppo » Robert James Lee Gillard (here’s hoping) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:17:27 +0000

[...] wrote up my own views about the power of ‘consensus politics’ here. Specifically I suggested that three aspects of a leader’s performance [...]

By: PollieGraph - George Megalogenis and Kevin Rudd: Anti-culture warriors

PollieGraph - George Megalogenis and Kevin Rudd: Anti-culture warriors — Sun, 04 May 2008 08:06:12 +0000

[...] Rudd, I think, would agree. It’s here that Nicholas Gruen’s point about contrasting styles of political leadership comes into play – Rudd really is a uniter, whereas [...]

By: PollieGraph - Homelessness

PollieGraph - Homelessness — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:12:17 +0000

[...] from John Howard’s style of governance – as demonstrated well by Nicholas Gruen in this essay. Note that I’m not arguing that right wing regimes per se lack the ability to plan ahead – [...]

By: Larvatus Prodeo

Larvatus Prodeo — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:23:05 +0000

Gruen on political leadership…

There’s a very spiffy article by Nicholas Gruen in Friday’s Fin, reproduced over at Troppo. Gruen makes an important point that’s often overlooked about the Howard government’s record:
By contrast Howard saw himself as the stron…

By: Club Troppo » Missing Link Daily

Club Troppo » Missing Link Daily — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:20:51 +0000

[...] Nicholas Gruen finds time off from zig-a-zig-ahhing to compare and contrast Hawke and Howard. [...]

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:42:59 +0000

There were some glitches in the editing. It was spotted (not by me), taken out, and because of various glitches it went back in again :(

Long story.

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:56:13 +0000

Unfortunately the error’s there in the Fin!

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:50:02 +0000

Yes, that error was corrected in the AFR I think – and has only survived in this draft because of a strange editing process about which I won’t bore you. Will go into the article and fix.

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:28:29 +0000

Very good article, Nick.

But a bit of pedantry – Hawke was re-elected in 1984 not in 1985.

By: gatewatching » Blog Archive » Outsiders - 2nd March 2008

gatewatching » Blog Archive » Outsiders - 2nd March 2008 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:34:10 +0000

[...] surprise!” moment, Andrew Bolt is shaping up to

By: SJ

SJ — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:03:13 +0000

I read that yesterday, Nick, and thought it was very good.

By: CL's blog is back

CL's blog is back — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:29:50 +0000

well said Good sir.

One big problem Rudd wil lhave is that like Howard he is a micro-manager. He has good Ministers by and Large. Be a chairman like Hawkey sometimes