2010 Hung Parliament roundtable #2
Please use this thread for any breaking news and general speculation that isn’t quite on topic for any other recent hung-parliament posts.
Wednesday Thursday Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Mr Barry Morgan (and Spicks and Specks). Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
The new election no one wants – except the Murdoch press (and maybe Mr Rabbit)
I’m sure there’ll be lots more of this around in tomorrow’s papers, but this article by David Penberthy caught my eye via a Twitter link. In less portentous tones than Paul Kelly, “Penbo” opines in similarly petulant vein. The good [...]
Has Abbott done his dash?
Tony Abbott’s response to the country independents’ request for Treasury costings of his promises [see this previous post for details, and for Julia Gillard's response] is to offer them meetings with the Coalition’s accountancy firm and his shadow ministers. Peter [...]
What the Independents want; and what Julia Gillard will give them
Here’s a list of requests from the three rural independents. And here’s the Prime Minister’s response.
Did voters intend a “none of the above” result?
This question, along with the related one about whether primary votes or the two party preferred accords greater legitimacy (and note that George Brandis on election night was arguing that it was all about the 2PP, when it looked like [...]
The media, ‘reform’ and the interregnum
In my article for The Drum on Monday, I observed: What will be most interesting over the next few days and weeks will be whether the Australian commentary machine’s momentum finally switches – an actual event has occurred, but the [...]
Abbott’s Plan B?
On another thread, Josh makes the intriguing suggestion that Tony Abbott may not be taking negotiations to form government seriously, and preparing the ground for a claim that any Gillard minority government lacks “legitimacy”, particularly if the Coalition seat count [...]
The fracturing of the two party system
Following on from Kim’s post, with whose reasoning I agree, I think it’s worth making a point about the parallel decomposition of the two party system. This is most starkly illustrated by looking at the AEC’s national count, which distinguishes [...]
We are not alone: The end of the Westminster model?
(Via Open Democracy) Patrick Dunleavy from the LSE has written a post on the decline of the “Westminster model”: For the first time in history, the Australian outcome means that every key ‘Westminster model’ country in the world now has [...]
What lessons should the media learn from Federal Election 2010? [Roundtable]
Tony Windsor had this to say on Q&A last night: TONY WINDSOR: Well, I think the media have got some degree of responsibility in relation to some of the things that went on, as well, but the – this is [...]
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