By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
I’ve previously posted on the fact that the Courier-Mail has been beside itself with early election speculation for quite some time now. The logic advanced by several commentators that Anna Bligh would call an election because the last Newspoll showed [...]
Posted in Media, Polls, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, Courier-Mail, election speculation, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, Media, News Limited, populism, Queensland politics, Queensland state election 2009, Steven Wardill |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
I’ve just fished out from the Spaminator a comment from me on an earlier thread, made when I wasn’t logged in, and two genuine comments into the bargain. That prompts me to remind people that the volume of spam we’re [...]
Posted in Administration, Blogging, Notices |
By Robert Merkel on January 21, 2009
While the government isn’t committing to anything, there’s speculation that another “stimulus package” is in the works. If so, how should that stimulus be delivered? Malcolm Turnbull – in the context of another incoherent ramble on the economy – wants [...]
Posted in Economics, Education, Environment, Policy | Tagged postgraduate scholarships, research grants, stimulus package, tax cuts |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
If you’re staying up to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration as 44th President of the United States of America, Crikey has a good guide to coverage and commentary on tv, live streaming, live blogging and twitter. Locally, Hoyden About Town is [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Blogging, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign policy, International, Iraq, Media, Middle East, Nationalism, Politics, The Web, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, America, Australia, barack obama, coverage, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, global financial crisis, global politics, healthcare, inaugural address, inauguration, Iraq, live blogging, Martin Luther King, Robert Gates, US alliance, us economy, US politics, War, world politics |
By Robert Merkel on January 20, 2009
Harry Nicolaides, the Australian expat arrested in Thailand for writing a book insulting their royal family (background in this earlier LP post), has been sentenced to the minimum three years’ jail after pleading guilty. Paul Bullock has done some homework, [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Crime, Culture, Foreign policy, International, Law | Tagged h |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
Some of the issues I was discussing in my recent post about Barack Obama’s web based strategy and its potential for both further political hay making and for keeping an electoral coalition together are neatly encapsulated in this article from [...]
Posted in Activism, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged barack obama, blogosphere, change.gov, liberals, netroots, open government, Sociology, US politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
Late last year, I observed that the final Newspoll of the year was “probably an outlier” (Labor’s 2PP lead was 59-41). I also observed that the pundits and the more excitable members of the political class would nevertheless take it [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, Barnaby Joyce, best PM, economy, Essential Research, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, leadership, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, political science, Poll Bludger, Polls, press gallery, psephological analysis, punditariat, recession, Rudd government, voting intention |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 19, 2009
Discussion on a previous thread on the Israeli/Gaza conflict can be continued on this one. Linking again to the latest from Open Democracy, I thought both Paul Rogers on Israel’s exhausted strategic doctrine and Khaled Hroub on whether the Israeli [...]
Posted in Imperialism, Middle East, Palestine, War | Tagged conflict, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Terrorism, violence, War |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 19, 2009
I feel like I’m flogging a dead horse here a little, but there are still some interesting posts being written on some of the issues arising out of Katherine Wilson’s hoaxing of Quadrant [see past LP posts here]. Most of [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged Activism, Blogging, blogosphere, Don Arthur, Ethics, hoax, Jason Wilson, journalism, Katherine Wilson, keith windschuttle, margaret simons, Media, media studies, political blogging, Quadrant, Sociology |
By Robert Merkel on January 19, 2009
Joshua Gans’s Core Economics blog has gone multi-author, including several members of the Melbourne Business School faculty and some overseas academic economists. One of his new contributors is Stephen King, the new Dean of Business and Economics at Monash University, [...]
Posted in Blogging, Economics |
The Obama inauguration: some interesting links
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
There’s probably literally millions of reactions to Barack Obama’s inauguration on the intertubes today, so I wanted to try to highlight some more specific articles and posts which raise some interesting issues which might otherwise get lost in the crowd. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, The Web, USA, War | Tagged America, Australia, barack obama, Christine Milne, Climate change, commentary, coverage, Democrats, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, Gaza, global finance, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, inaugural address, inauguration, Keynes, Keynesianism, Middle East, post-partisan politics, reactions, regulation, rhetoric, us economy, US politics, War, world politics | 8 Responses