The niqab in the witness box
There doesn’t appear to be much new election news yet, and the world goes on regardless. I held this over for a couple of days, but I think it’s still well worth discussing – RM. A court case in Western [...]
Spotlight The Spin
A weekly look at media spin tactics. Given the hung parliament, there’s plenty of spin being given a run right now! The non-election spin doesn’t stop for the campaign period, either.
Taking our time
Two of the most unedifying aspects of the aftermath of the election result, from the time when it became apparent that we would have a hung parliament, have been the pressure for a quick resolution and the endless rehashing of [...]
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!
Quick link: Bowe on what’s happening in the Senate
William Bowe has all the news on the shifting dynamic in the Senate. We know The Greens have won a Senator in each state, bringing them up to 9 Senators when the Senators elected yesterday take their seats on 1 [...]
Quick link: Keane – “it’s just a jump to the left”
Bernard Keane in today’s Crikey: A hung parliament and a new Senate in which the Greens will have the balance of power and, most likely, a presence of which few of their number would have dared dream. The mainstream media [...]
The electoral imperative for the independents, The Greens and the ALP
One of the interesting parallels for this campaign is obviously the British election result – and Penny Wong was right to say that George Brandis was running the same sort of agenda to try to bump the conservatives into office, [...]
Says it all
While this is a preliminary result, with 4 seats still in doubt, it shows the fundamental unfairness of the Australian election system. The Greens, with 11.43% of the vote, got a single seat. Meanwhile, the Nationals, with 3.86% of the vote, got 7, while the Queensland LNP, with 8.95% of the vote, got 21. Describing this outcome as anything other than perverse, is, well, perverse.
The leaders’ speeches and what comes next in Federal Election 2010
Tony Abbott asked his supporters tonight to avoid “premature triumphalism” but that clearly wasn’t the mood in the room in which he spoke. I’m not sure that the “exuberance” he identified was all that helpful to him, nor the highly [...]
Election night 2010
The polls have closed in the Eastern states, and we await the results. Elsewhere: Crikey has a live blog here, kicking off at 6.30pm.
Australia Votes 2010: Out and about the booths [Roundtable]
So, it’s election day, at long last. What’s happening in your neck of the woods? What’s the mood? Where are the good lamingtons and sausage sizzles? Do tell.
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