Victorian government’s climate change package
It will take a while to go through Victorian Government’s climate change white paper, so I won’t try to pronounce judgement the quality of the individual actions proposed. At first glance, shutting down part of Hazelwood is a good start. [...]
Julia Gillard’s mental health announcement live
If you’re interested in watching the Prime Minister make a long awaited announcement on mental health, you can watch a live stream of her address to CEDA in Brisbane online. Update: The focus of Gillard’s announcement is on suicide prevention, [...]
Abbott on population: Babies good, immigration not so much
When Tony Abbott was giving a press conference yesterday, alongside his wife, at a child care centre at Kippa Ring in the Brisbane outer northside electorate of Petrie, he was asked if his support for benefits designed to encourage Australians [...]
Gender gap disappearing: polls
Essential Research finds that there were no “substantial gender differences” in Tony Abbott’s approval ratings, and men were slightly more likely to approve of Julia Gillard’s performance and prefer her as PM. Yesterday, Newspoll found that Labor’s primary vote among [...]
Wikileaks Roundtable
Afghan, Pakistani Reactions at Odds Over Leaked US Documents, US says Afghan Wikileaks ‘could put lives at risk’
Reality check: Tony Abbott’s 7.30 Report comments on immigration
Tony Abbott tied himself in knots trying to explain to Kerry O’Brien tonight why, if he chose to use 2008 as a baseline for his immigration cuts (which is misleading, as the intake is on the way down), the then [...]
LP on Twitter
Just a quick reminder that we have a Twitter presence. It’s one way of being updated about posts, and also, particularly during this campaign, a medium we take advantage of for livechat about set pieces such as last night’s leaders’ [...]
CPD post: Westbury on cultural policy and the Australia Council
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
The view from Channel Nine V: The disappearing campaign
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. On Channel Nine in Brisbane tonight, the sole election story was the seventh [...]
“If you can’t govern your party…”
By Mark Bahnisch Over the weekend, I read Annabel Crabb’s Rise of the Ruddbot. It’s fascinating to take a trip back to a time when a Liberal leadership team of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop seemed fanciful. Just as much [...]
Reality check: Is Sydney actually “full”?
Ever since the Penrith by-election, we’ve been hearing endlessly about Western Sydney as the epicentre of the Australian political nation. The population “debate” proclaims that we need to “pause” as outer suburban areas groan under population pressure and failing infrastructure. [...]
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