A thousand opinions…

It didn’t seem so lively under 11-years of John Howard’s Prime Ministership.

There were the occasional leadership spats between him and Treasurer Peter Costello but even they were whimpers on the political stage. Begrudgingly kept in check for the greater good, of course. Then 2007 came and, well, we’ve been on the political equivalent of a see-saw ever since. A see-saw that’s plunging over a waterfall, apparently.

Annabel Crabb takes a look at the Labor Party now, compared to how it was travelling a little over a year ago when Kevin Rudd was rolled due to ‘external circumstances’:

But is Labor really a spent force? It certainly feels like it. Peter Hartcher writes:

Niki Savva was characteristically abrupt:

But Richard Glover took a different tack when he asked, genuinely, what the hell has she done to deserve all this ‘disquiet’:

Well, what do you make of all this? Where are we headed and what do you make of the leaders taking us there?

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