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Author: John Warhurst

AUSTRALIA

Politics is a team sport
- John Warhurst
- 17 October 2007
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Shadow Minister for the Environment Peter Garrett has suffered substantial damage to his reputation over the Tasmanian pulp mill. What Garrett thinks personally doesn't actually matter, other than ultimately to his conscience.
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AUSTRALIA

Australia's fickle leadership transition process
- John Warhurst
- 19 September 2007
The Coalition leadership controversy shows how easy it is to change leaders in a Westminster parliamentary system. A number of senior Canadian journalists were in Canberra. They were staggered at the power vested in the hands of so few.
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AUSTRALIA

The Church and Public Debate
- John Warhurst
- 12 September 2007
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AUSTRALIA

‘Lazarus with a triple bypass’ could well become Harry Houdini
- John Warhurst
- 22 August 2007
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While this election is still there to be won or lost, Labor is rightfully the hot favourite. But changes of government are rare in Australian politics, and there are four reasons why Labor might still lose.
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AUSTRALIA

Political opinion polls matter
- John Warhurst
- 25 July 2007
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Much of the flesh of an election year grows on a skeleton made up of public opinion polls. But they are only as good as the interpretation that accompanies them. Sometimes commentators see only what they want to see.
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John Warhurst
- John Warhurst
John Warhurst AO is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University in Canberra where he was Professor of Political Science from 1993-2008. Before that he was Professor of Politics at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, from 1985-1993. He has been a weekly columnist for The Canberra Times since 1998. He also writes occasionally for The Footy Almanac. He has been chair of the Australian Republican Movement (2002-2005), campaigning for an Australian Head of State for Australia, and Deputy Chair of Catholic Social Services Australia (2007-2012), the church's peak body for social services. In 2009 he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO) for services to political science and to the community.
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