By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2010
Presiding as he has been over the Nationals-isation of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott might pause to consider one of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s bon mots: You can’t straddle both sides of a barbed-wire fence. The first stage of selling the Coalition’s [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on February 2, 2010
… and no, I won’t be posting a photo of Tony Abbott in any form of swimwear to answer that question. But it’s interesting to observe the blue thread that runs through all of Abbott’s pronouncements – a mindset that [...]
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By Robert Merkel on February 2, 2010
If you’ve got the stomach for it, the policy is here. The policy – if it deserves the title – is essentially a grab-bag of carbon abatement policies funded by taxation. It’s not a big new tax, it’s a big [...]
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By Paul Norton on February 2, 2010
…and here’s the text of the letter.
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By Robert Merkel on February 2, 2010
I won’t try to summarize The Guardian‘s story on Dr. Phil Jones’s seemingly ill-judged reaction to the discovery that some of the data supplied by a coauthor in a widely-cited 1990 paper was less solid than one would hope. The [...]
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By Deborah on February 2, 2010
I had been contemplating writing some posts about the South Australian election, coming up on 20 March. But it seems that if I am to do so, either on Larvatus Prodeo, or on my own blog, I must publish my [...]
Posted in Elections, Politics, State/Territory Elections | Tagged politics&govt |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 1, 2010
Karen Brooks’ post on Tony Abbott’s now infamous interview with the Women’s Weekly is the best piece I’ve read about its implications. Read it here.
Posted in Media, Parenting, Politics, Sexuality, Women | Tagged daughters, Karen Brooks, Religion, Sexuality, Tony Abbott, values, Women, Women's weekly |
Newspoll Labor 52-48: Watch the political narrative shift
By Mark Bahnisch on February 1, 2010
The first Newspoll of the year has Labor’s 2PP at 52, and the Coalition ahead by one point on primaries at 41, with The Greens steady on 9. By contrast, Essential Research has Labor on a 2PP of 56. Interestingly, [...]
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