The debate over the debates, round three
I’ve posted a piece at The Drumroll on today’s argy bargy about further debates and “town hall meetings”.
The death of the internet filter
It’s worth noting that just for once, the Liberal Party has actually stuck up for Liberal principles and decided to oppose the internet filter. The decision, along with that of the Greens, ensures that the filter will be, um, filtered [...]
Some decency on welfare policy
One of many depressing facets of the election campaign is the race to the bottom between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott on punishing and straightening the unemployed and low income people generally, and pushing the discourse that poverty, homelessness and [...]
Tony Abbott on Q&A
Tony Abbott will be appearing on Q&A in a few minutes. Please use the comments thread to, well, comment on his performance. As usual, there’ll be lots of Twitter action, under the hashtag #qanda. NB: Discussion of Julia Gillard’s appearance [...]
Open economists’ letter on Labor’s stimulus
John Quiggin has published an open letter from 50 academic economists arguing that the stimulus package prevented Australia from going into recession:
Greens plant some rural seeds
Perhaps the most significant of the ABC’s “My Vote” videos (where voters talk about their electorate and the issues that concern them) features the delightfully and aptly named Sid Plant, a farmer from the Darling Downs in Queensland. Plant, like [...]
Paying the costs of immigration
Dick Smith’s Population Puzzle was one of the better-made pieces of agitprop I’ve seen. Provided you a) didn’t stop and think about it too deeply, and b) buy into the idea of Smith as all-Australian hero rather than shallow self-promoter, [...]
Gillard looks to the future in ALP campaign launch
As Mark foreshadowed, Julia Gillard used her policy launch today to tie together many of the initiatives announced during the campaign into a coherent narrative – promising both security in the present, and a transformative vision of the future. The [...]
Living in a 4C world
The recent University of Queensland survey of more than 300 federal, state and local government politicians found that: more than 40 per cent of those questioned said they believed it would be safe for the planet to warm by 4 [...]
CPD post: Cox on the social policy scorecard
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 collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
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