- 26 Nov 07 SMH Paul Keating: Divisive leader who squandered Australia's hopes - The Liberal Party of John Howard, Philip Ruddock, Alexander Downer and Peter Costello is now a party of privilege and punishments. One that lacks that most basic of wellsprings: charity.
- 27 Nov 07 BBC: Rudd to apologise to Aborigines.
- 2 Aug 10 The Australian: A deep deficit of good ideas - Australia's budget bottom line remains the envy of the developed world and a pin-up of the international credit rating agencies...Julia Gillard is asking the people to back a government that shepherded the only advanced economy to have kept growing through the global crisis. And now the economy's terms of trade export bounty is rebounding to its highest reading in 60 years...Instead of embracing our growth opportunities, Australia was fantasising about imposing lower immigration and population caps. Our election campaign was "pathetic" and "asinine". Opinion: Sadly fear and greed are once again being used to obscure the major issues in an Australian election campaign. These same factors brought on the GFC!
- 15 Aug 10: Gruen Nation TV ad for The Greens (2010 Federal election - created for a competition - not for payment!)
- 18 Apr 12 SMH: Australian economy leads the [developed] world
- 7 Sep 2016 SMH: Chilcot Report: The mind-boggling incompetence of Bush, Blair and Howard laid bare.
- 28 Sep 16 SMH: University of Sydney academics protest honorary degree for 'racist and war criminal' John Howard.
- 8 Jul 18 The Saturday Paper ($): The dark politics of the Timor spy case - “Basically, what the government is trying to do is prosecute people for revealing its own crimes,”
- 5 Aug 18 The Saturday Paper ($): Mike Carlton - Fairfax and Turnbull’s Potemkin village
- 7 Dec 18 ABC: Liberal Party donor issues legal threat to minister over development on sensitive bird habitat.
- 28 Sep 20 The Saturday Paper ($): Gadfly - Home Enervations [reflects on the demise of aged care]
- 24 Aug 21 The Guardian: The Tampa affair, 20 years on: the ship that capsized Australia’s refugee policy.
- 11 Jun 22 The Saturday Paper: Collapse of the modern Liberal Party - "...Menzies would not countenance the politics of division and the culture wars that came to characterise the party under Howard and the leaders who followed him.."
- 29 Nov 22 The Saturday Paper ($): John Howard’s anti-Voice strategy
- 23 Sep 24 The Guardian: Albanese urged to ditch Howard-era native forest logging exemptions+ Axing negative gearing won’t cause a rental crisis. Here’s the maths.
The NSW Government of Barry O'Farrell headed the same way:
- 27 Dec 12 SMH: Hunt fury may trigger park disruptions - the Liberal state government of Barry O'Farrrell caves in to the Shooters Party!
- 13 Mar 13 SMH: Bans lifted on fishing in sanctuaries - The opposition and the NSW Greens accused the government of capitulation to the whims of the Shooters and Fishers Party.
- 16 Apr 14 The Guardian: Barry O'Farrell resigns as NSW premier after thank you card for wine emerges.