By Mark Bahnisch on March 24, 2010
On Lateline last night, Laura Tingle made a point that she’s been developing in her Friday columns in the Fin Review. Tingle argues that the parties’ current financial crisis (caused by a drop in corporate donations associated both with the [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Polls | Tagged corporate donations, Federal Election 2010, focus groups, great health debate, health policy, hospitals, Kevin Rudd, Lateline, Laura Tingle, leaders debate, messaging, national press club, political communication, political donations, polling, possum, The Worm, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 23, 2010
As anticipated, commentariat memes very quickly emerged after the Great Health Debate – “Abbott was disadvantaged because he didn’t have a policy”, “Abbott came out swinging”, “He was authentic”, “Rudd played to The Worm”, “It’s not important anyway”, “No one [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Film, TV, Video etc, Health, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls, Sociology | Tagged 7 30 Report, commentariat, day time tv, Days of our lives, debate, demographics, Essential Research, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, Grahame Morris, great health debate, Health, health debate, health policy, hospitals, Howard, Kevin Rudd, Laurie Oakes, leaders debates, National Health and Hospitals Network, Peter Martin, political communication, political strategy, Polls, press gallery, ratings, reaction, The Worm |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 23, 2010
Yikes! Our fifth blogiversary was last Tuesday. That’s a long time in internet years. 7095 posts, 309041 comments and counting since March 16, 2005; thanks to all my lovely fellow LP bloggers, commenters and readers!
Posted in Activism, Administration, Blogging, Notices, The Web | Tagged anniversary, birthday, Blogging, blogiversary, five years, internet years, Larvatus prodeo, March 2005 |
By LP Administrator on March 23, 2010
Some readers might be experiencing error messages from anti-virus programs, warning of a possible phishing threat. This has been caused by code in an ad which seeks to open a file, and we don’t believe that there is any real [...]
Posted in Administration, Blogging, Notices, The Web
By Mark Bahnisch on March 23, 2010
LP commenters have recorded their thoughts on this thread, but it’s also worth a distinct post to link to reaction elsewhere to today’s National Press Club debate on health between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott. Tim Dunlop has a great [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Media, Politics | Tagged Ben Eltham, Bernie Banton, Croakey, debate, Federal Election 2010, great health debate, Health, hospitals, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Lara Bingle, leaders debates, media narrative, National Health and Hospitals Network, national press club, Nicola Roxon, Policy, the drum, tim dunlop, Tony Abbott, trevor cook |
By Robert Merkel on March 23, 2010
It’s around 30% of your peak-hour travel time, apparently. Joshua Gans, like unaccountably many econobloggers, gets rather over-excited by Apple products. But, stripped of its Jobsianist overtones, Gans has an interesting idea – give people car navigation devices that, rather [...]
Posted in Economics, Science, Transport | Tagged Braess's Paradox, cars, John Nash, joshua gans, mathematics, nash equilibrium, prisoner's dilemma |
By tigtog on March 23, 2010
Via Peter Martin’s blog, here are the Press Club rules for today’s debate: “The order of leaders would be decided by the toss of a coin. The moderator will be a Club Director Chris Uhlmann. Each leader is allocated 5 [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Media | Tagged debate, federal hospital takeover, health debate, health policy, hospitals, Kevin Rudd, National Health and Hospitals Network, national press club, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2010
I was interested to hear Tasmanian Greens leader Nick McKim comment on the 7.30 Report that neither Will Hodgman nor David Bartlett had yet contacted him. I linked in an earlier post to an article reviewing the precedents for a [...]
Posted in Politics, State/Territory Elections | Tagged agreement, ALP, arrangement, confidence motion, David Bartlett, election results, Government, Hare Clark, Labor, Liberal Party, liberals, negotiations, Nick McKim, Richard Farmer, supply, Tasmanian election 2010, Tasmanian politics, The Greens, Westminster system, Will Hodgman |
By tigtog on March 22, 2010
President says ‘this is what change looks like’ about legislation that ensures coverage for 95% of Americans
Posted in Health, USA | Tagged Glenn Beck, HCR, Jon Stewart, Obamacare |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 22, 2010
There’s some good coverage of the South Australian and Tasmanian elections from Luke Walladge and Kate Crowley respectively at New Matilda today. In Inside Story, Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin take a comprehensive look at the precedents for written agreements [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, election results, Labor, Liberal Party, liberals, South Australia election 2010, South Australian politics, state governments, state politics, Tasmanian election 2010, Tasmanian politics, The Greens |
By Mercurius on March 22, 2010
After the two weekend state elections, it’s likely that two Labor governments will be (re-)formed: a majority government in SA and a minority government in Tasmania with Greens support (unless the Greens flip to supporting the Libs). Not that you’d [...]
Posted in Elections, State/Territory Elections |
No one watches daytime tv; and other Health Debate myths
By Mark Bahnisch on March 23, 2010
As anticipated, commentariat memes very quickly emerged after the Great Health Debate – “Abbott was disadvantaged because he didn’t have a policy”, “Abbott came out swinging”, “He was authentic”, “Rudd played to The Worm”, “It’s not important anyway”, “No one [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Film, TV, Video etc, Health, Howardia, Media, Politics, Polls, Sociology | Tagged 7 30 Report, commentariat, day time tv, Days of our lives, debate, demographics, Essential Research, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, Grahame Morris, great health debate, Health, health debate, health policy, hospitals, Howard, Kevin Rudd, Laurie Oakes, leaders debates, National Health and Hospitals Network, Peter Martin, political communication, political strategy, Polls, press gallery, ratings, reaction, The Worm | 48 Responses