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While I disagree that the Coalition can't win, I think that they're very unlikely to. Their campaign seems to be in neutral, they're running scare ads that are getting so overwrought they're almost ridiculous and they can't get a coherent line on inflation and interest rates (witness Minchin...

"While completing her doctorate under the supervision of Associate Professor Rod Tiffen, Shelly has lectured in Australian Politics and Power in Society, and tutored in Media & Politics, Policy Analysis and Australian Politics." But Power in Society isn't running next year, so you're out of luck.

Unless Rudd gets his non-core promise on and says that he'll have to abandon some spending because of inflation.

Do history, most of their junior units are pretty solid. But unless you're planning to go onto senior level, avoid government and international relations like the plague.

Here's the ad. It isn't very heavy on Costello, but it makes the point, among various education, climate change, interest rate messages, that a vote for John Howard is a vote for smirky.

Looks like I'll have a three-day week in semester 1, awesome. I'll have to think about where I want to fit my tutes in, though. Screw GOVT and its two-hour lectures. What history course are you doing, veridis?

Uggggggh archaeology on friday. Thank god I have a week to study for it.

I tend to agree with that. Then again, maybe the confirmation that Howard is retiring will crystallise the issue in the voters' minds.

Glenn Milne says that ALP ads for the final fortnight will target Howard's retirement: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22737604-952,00.html

Labor's HTV cards for each electorate are available here. Can't find anything equivalent on the Liberal site. Edit: in my electorate they've put the CDP 5th out of 8, which is way higher than they deserve. Not that it matters at all, but still.

Prima facie, I assume he's talking about specifics and details, as in to be a successful historian you must be interested in details. That would seem to fit Ranke's general approach to history. But I could be wrong.

Sounds like Vassili is trying to campaign on issues which are actually constitutionally granted to the commonwealth government, which I think is admirable. You can be assured that the only reason that liberal candidates are going so much on 'roads!' and 'security cameras!' and 'schools!' and...

Languages vary a bit from field to field, though. For example, a lot of archaeological research is published in French, German or Hebrew.

HSTY1088 was pretty good today, even if I had to powerwalk halfway across campus to get to the room on time. (Fuck you, Storie Dixson.) Hopefully that'll keep me in the HD band and I might just be able to scrape into law. Unlikely, though.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22731032-12377,00.html

Note the attempt in the third ad (the economic management one) to link the economy with education and health.

Touche. But when you've been doing massive junior courses with 200-500 people, seeing a two-digit number is a refreshing change.

Re: Subject Reviews - UPDATED WITH .PDF on first post She may well be, a lot of ancient history lecturers do that sort of thing. Kathryn's not running the junior course next year though, Jeffrey Tatum will be doing it instead.

Ooh, procrastination time! Thanks stas. I like that next year I'm going to be in a course with only 17 students. That is mildly awesome.

Labor takes the fight to the Coalition on interest rates and economic management. The parties seem to be upping their ad spend at the moment, I watched Seven News (ugh) a couple of days ago and there were five political ads in 30 minutes. (It was a 4-1 ALP-Coalition split, if anyone's interested.)