Culture Wars: We have a winner, folks!
… and the prize for most tortuous attempt to diss “the elites” while invoking Aristophanes and Socrates goes to… David Burchell! Judges were impressed with his ability to entirely ignore the irony of indulging in a bit of elite bashing [...]
Gillard’s attack on Abbott’s great big new tax, and his gender fail
Bernard Keane picked something interesting out of last night’s debate (yes, it is possible – see previous LP discussion here and here): Watch for Labor to ramp up its attack on the Liberals’ paid parental leave tax. Gillard’s most effective [...]
Spotlight The Spin
What are they hoping that we won’t talk about this week because it’s old news now? Let’s give those stories some oxygen, link to blogs discussing them, and reanimate their shambling zombie corpses.
Reality check: East Timor denies dialogue on processing centre occurring
In tonight’s leaders’ debate, which centred almost totally on immigration, Julia Gillard reiterated her claim that dialogue was progressing with the Timorese government on the establishment of a regional processing centre for asylum seekers. That was before the debate descended [...]
Election Roundtable #4
Please keep the general election campaign talk (breaking news etc) on these Election Open Threads, and keep discussions on the other posts focussed on the topic presented by the author.
Newspoll and Galaxy: Labor 52-48, 62% against climate citizen assembly
Newspoll has Labor on 52% of the two party preferred vote, down from 55% last week. There are no details yet of the primaries. Measured against other recent polls, it’s possible this one has a sample skewed towards the Coalition. [...]
Leaders’ debates, postmodern style
Voters actually watching tonight’s debate between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, as opposed to the Worm or the Twitter feed, would have heard a lot about “fair dinkum” “honest, decent Australians” and an “economic plan” or “a better way”. Oh, [...]
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
The carbon price we almost had
Julia Gillard once said that delay on climate change equated to denial. With Labor’s announcement of a citizen’s assembly and a climate change commission continuing to attract puzzlement at best, it’s worth observing that we already have a price on [...]
Cash for clunkers – craptacularity in action
In a sense, we already have a price on carbon. Well, not quite. We have dozens of different prices on carbon, based on the grab-bag of various energy efficiency incentives, renewable energy targets, and other abatement measures already in place. [...]
Open 2010 Leaders’ Debate thread
Tonight sees the only debate of this election campaign – live at 6.30pm AEST. Attempts to negotiate an independent commission to determine the scope and rules of three debates failed this term. Academic research has demonstrated that the rather cursory [...]
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