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Rudd : I Have A Narrative 12.30pm : The prime minister speaks. He has a story to tell. A story of Australia, that is the Australia to come. The Australia he wants to make into a reality. Kevin Rudd has finally found The Narrative. Or so we are told. He's going to speak for almost an hour.

Club Troppo’s Don Arthur and I started a correspondence by email about some of the issues I raised in my post the other day about neo-liberalism and thinktanks, and the very rapid Blairisation of the Rudd/Gillard agenda (which has certainly become even more evident in the interim with the latest

August 28, 2008 — spot_the_dog . “Australia is not an island.” -Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaking to The 7:30 Report’s Kerry O’Brien, 28/08/08 .

Kevin Rudd’s address to the National Press Club yesterday (you can read it here) was notable as much for what he didn’t say as for what he did. I’d be very surprised indeed if the expectation that he would spell out a “narrative” wasn’t created by Labor types themselves. It’s not the sort of thing that journos just make up.

August 28, 2008 at 8:26 am (Australia, Australia and Australian, Kevin Rudd, education, future schooling, generational change, right wing politics, teaching) Justine Ferrari has there commented on the news rather than reporting — not itself a criticism, as the item is so classified:

August 29, 2008 at 9:07 am (Australia, Australia and Australian, Kevin Rudd, Teachers Who Change Lives, awful warnings, challenge, curriculum, education, future schooling, generational change, right wing politics, teaching) PM aims to teach unions a lesson - National - smh.com.au

At one stage, having read a lecture by Mark Davis in Overland, I thought his new book was going to be an update of Gangland. I’ve just started reading The Land of Plenty: Australia in the 2000s (expect a full review in due course), but it appears very much as if at some point in the course of writing, it turned into an update of the late Donald Horne’s The Lucky Country.

Manjit Bhatia Aug 25,08 from Malayisakini From my hotel room window, China’s new national Olympics stadium is shrouded in a thick, gray mist. Visibility is approaching near hopelessness. Mr Magoo would’ve had no chance. Only it isn’t mist.   It’s smog. Pollution.

The Fin Review reported yesterday that a host of resource company execs are descending on Canberra on Friday for a pow wow with Martin Ferguson. Initially this meeting was being presented as a way of circumventing the BCA, who released a doom and gloom laden report last week basically threatening a capital strike.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will apparently be outlining a “narrative” for the government at the National Press Club today. Crikey’s First Dog on the Moon kicks off the speculation as to what shape it will take.