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Millais “Autumn Leaves” (Wikimedia Commons) A round-up of the international scene It’s been a busier August than usual, with the Labour leadership contest and the Australian election, but things will step up a couple of gears this month as politicians return from holidays, parliaments reconvene, and politics returns in earnest for the autumn. Taking its cue from the iconic Ladybird books series (more at bottom), these are a few things “to look out for” as the autumn unfolds. Australia (voted…

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ABC News Could this cliffhanger election be heading for a hung parliament? The babies have been kissed, the staged events are done, the former leaders have made their cameo appearances (the knifing of Rudd the “elephant in the room” for Labor), and the psychic animals have had their say (the octopus and crocodile for Gillard, and the snail and spiny anteater for Abbott). It’s been something of a scrappy campaign, and rather a strange one – indeed it’s been described…

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Alexander Drake revisits Australia ahead of Saturday’s election With less than a week to go until the 2010 Australian federal election, we are now seeing a deluge of polling – giving us some mixed messages. The second week of the campaign was the most difficult week of the campaign for Labor, with leading journalist Laurie Oakes running a story that Julia Gillard was wary of supporting a paid parental leave scheme during a Cabinet meeting. Key pollsters such as Newspoll,…

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Wikimedia Commons Me from Brazil looks at this autumn’s presidential election It’s been over a year since Dan Hamilton wrote an amazing article about the presidential election in Brazil. It has been a boring campaign until about a month ago, but considering that the Constitution does not allow any kind of campaign at this point, it’s understandable that things are a bit slow. Lula and his candidate, Dilma Rousseff, are now firmly favourite. Her alliance is broader than José Serra’s,…

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Alexander Drake previews the 21st August Australian election Australia has just started its 2010 election campaign, with the big day on Saturday 21 August. Much has happened in Australian politics since I last wrote an article for PB.com in the lead up to the 2007 federal election. Since then: For much of the 2007-2010 parliamentary term, Kevin Rudd enjoyed stellar heights of polling popularity for an unusually long period of time; The Liberal Party, having lost its long-term leader John…

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