The die is cast: Rudd v. Gillard at 9am
In his press conference tonight, Kevin Rudd threw down a gauntlet to the Labor Party. He made it very difficult for MPs to elect Julia Gillard without her leadership being cruelled from the start. The PM emphasised the fact that [...]
ABC claims move against Rudd is on
ABC tv news has just claimed that a move against Kevin Rudd’s leadership is on tonight, emanating from Victoria and including “senior ministers”. Tomorrow is the last sitting day of this session of parliament. There’s nothing on the web so [...]
Wednesday Whimsy
“Werner Herzog” reads Where’s Wally?
RSPT – mining industry to eschew negotiations, fight to the death?
Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer have a story in Crikey today reporting that the mining industry will resist a compromise with the Rudd government on the RSPT: The mining industry will reject any compromise offer on the government’s RSPT proposal, [...]
Secondary safety is only half the picture
“Man is the measure of all things, but it matters greatly what he measures” –Stanley Mott1 It’s lesson number one (once you take out the sexist language, of course!) for anybody who ever creates, interprets, or makes use of quantitative [...]
Should gas fired power be part of the transition to green power? Guest post by John Davidson
I first met John Davidson, a process engineer who has worked in the construction and mining industries around Australia, at the Brisbane hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Climate Policy last year. Soon afterwards I suggested he might do [...]
Marginal seat polling and the Rudd government's position
Paul Norton observed here at LP yesterday that we’re in uncharted psephological waters, with both major parties on low primaries and both leaders relatively unpopular. A host of questions have therefore arisen: about the likely flow of preferences from The [...]
The Telstra-NBNco deal
Trying to get one’s head around the detail of the deal between Telstra and the National Broadband Network company – the vehicle set up by the government to build the NBN – has been a mind-bending exercise. Certainly, it’s virtually [...]
Polls, preferences and the Penrith by-election: Watch this space
One indicator for the question that’s occupying many minds about the likely distribution of preferences from The Greens in a situation where their primary vote increases considerably will be the final distribution of preferences in the Penrith by-election. So, watch [...]
Monday morning musings
Some isolated points that occur to me this morning. Feel free to riff on any or all of them: Scanning this morning’s Murdoch and ABC news media, the order of stories and editorial lines are identical. An opinion poll result [...]
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