Queensland election live and online tonight!
We’ve got a real contest on our hands in the Smart State (perhaps over the future of that moniker!) as Queenslanders vote today. At Crikey’s dedicated Qld election blog, Possum, William “The Poll Bludger” Bowe and I will be liveblogging [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Newspoll: Queensland election evenly poised
Primaries are 41.7% Labor and 42.1% LNP with the 2PP at 49.9% ALP and 50.1% LNP. Details at Pineapple Party Time.
Crikey livechat on Queensland election
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/crikey-liveblog-queensland-election.jpg" There will be a livechat on the Queensland election at Pineapple Party Time from 2pm today with Crikey political correspondent Bernard Keane and my PPT co-bloggers Possum and William Bowe. Unfortunately I can’t join in, because it clashes [...]
Borg can't be sold to Brisbane; Nor Bligh to Beattie's battlers
From today’s Crikey email: I don’t often agree with former ALP Senator John Black’s political analysis — he places too much weight on demographics for my liking — but I did nod my head vigorously when reading his piece on [...]
Citing sources in op-eds
There’s an op-ed piece by Katie Dunlop in The Age today on an important topic of family violence, and more specifically violence committed by intimate partners. She argues that it is, presently, poorly covered by the media and proposes some [...]
The SLAPP
The lawsuit brought by the woodchipping and logging corporation, Gunn’s Ltd, against twenty activists and organisations (the “Gunns 20″) has finally been settled. Well, kind of. Gunn’s is still taking legal action against six individuals and one organisation. Heidi Douglas [...]
Malcolm Turnbull's WorkChoices
As I write, Malcolm Turnbull is on the telly stealing Paul Keating’s lines, ranting and raving about stuff that happened in 1989, and jabbering about neo-liberalism and Hugo Chavez. It certainly appears that Malcolm couldn’t resist taking the bait laid [...]
The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship
WikiLeaks is a public-interest website which makes leaked material freely available on the internet. In the past it has revealed information on psychological torture at Guantanamo Bay, a Pentagon analysis showing it is losing the war in Afghanistan, and insider [...]
Queensland Labor machine runs off the track
I observed on Pineapple Party Time at the beginning of the week that the blame game inside the ALP about the failings of the Queensland campaign had started to leak out into the media. Evidently, some Labor types have been [...]
Fielding the coin-toss
I’d like to play poker against Steve Fielding. If his actions over the alcopops tax are any guide, he’d bet all his chips with a lousy hand – after showing it to all the other players. The net result of [...]
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